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Mystery blue pressed bowl, - ID = Poland, Stolle Niemen

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Bernard C:
Has anyone any ideas on the origins and date of this bowl?   It was a gift to my partner Janet from Gladys, her very elderly tea lady, after a clear out, so was probably originally purchased from a UK retailer.   The moulded stippling suggests Sowerby Tynesyde glass, but many others used this technique.

Width 9½", height 6¾".   Four-sided mould. Top and foot ground, bevelled, and polished - a high quality production.


Standard image: http://bernard.cavalot.users.btopenworld.com/gm040531a/lg_view1.jpg
or supersize: http://bernard.cavalot.users.btopenworld.com/gm040531a/xl_view1.jpg


Standard image: http://bernard.cavalot.users.btopenworld.com/gm040531a/lg_view2.jpg
or supersize: http://bernard.cavalot.users.btopenworld.com/gm040531a/xl_view2.jpg

Bernard C.  8)

Cathy B:
Bernard,

Ah, this piece!  I don't believe this is Antipodean. The moulding on this piece seems far too good to be Australian. I _think_ that there were only two blues ever made by Crown Crystal (Australia), one using uranium (predominantly in the patterns known as "leaf panels" and "rosette"), and a deeper, non-uranium blue appearing just before WWII (and possibly during the war). As in all of this glass, there is some degree of variability - I take it that the ingredients were lobbed into the pots without precision. The colour doesn't look right to me.

Australian glass is generally rough. Not just straw marks, but ripples, thickened sections, slumps and grit in the glass. It adds to the charm!

I would be thinking Europe, Czech or German - perhaps you should email Siegmar Geisselberger?

Hope that is of some help?
Cathy.

Bernard C:
Thanks Cathy, your views are much appreciated, as always.   I have changed the title to reflect your thoughts.

Bernard C.

Glen:
A comment from an "older" member (as in when I joined). I would suggest that Bernard's bowl may be from the same producer as my "Odeon" Carnival bowl (my name for it).

Here's the link to see it.

http://tinypic.com/hujbmc.jpg

You can see other photos of this item in a previous thread on the Board here.
http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,2233.15.html

Glen

Bernard C:
Glen — Ivo has come up with a vase that may be another pattern from the same stable.    See topic Blue pressed vase 1930s.

Note that Ivo has used tinypic.com to host his image, so it may not be available for long.

If we could attribute just one of these it could help with all three.    Anyone have any ideas?

Bernard C.  8)

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