Topic: Scottish Arts And Crafts

[johnphilip]

Hi Frank, I have some Scottish arts and crafts finger bowls enamelled and signed H W,i was told a few years ago by a major auction house that they were by Hana or Helen Walton and were quite valuable,but i can find nothing about these two ladies,can you help.regards John.

[johnphilip]

Hi Frank sorry its Hanna Walton .John

[Angela B]

I am going to stick my neck out here, hope I'm right.
If there is a Hannah Walton connected with the Arts and Crafts movement in Scotland she is so little known that her work could not possibly be "quite valuable".
Added later: Well I was wrong - see Anne's post below!!
There was a George Walton (1867 - 1933) who was retained by James Couper & Sons as their principal designer from about 1896 (after Christopher Dresser who designed glass for Couper's until the mid 1890s). Walton was an architect-designer in Glasgow, and his designs are described as similar to Christopher Dresser's Clutha glass, but more symmetrical, less extravagant, and with more aventurine and lustre patches. Perhaps the auction house expert got confused.
However, HW is not likely to be the signature of George Walton.
There was an H. S. Williams-Thomas who was a designer at Stevens and Williams, but didn't so far as I know use HW as a signature. There was a German glass artist called Hans Weber in the 1930s who used an H sitting in a W. And there was a Hugo Eduard Wolf who used block capitals H.W. in Bohemia in the 19th Century.
Having said all that, maybe you could show us a picture - I'm sure that would help.
Best regards
Angela (I am not Frank).
References:
Charles R. Hajdamach: British Glass 1800-1914, published 1991.
Cyril Manley: Decorative Victorian Glass, published 1988.
Victor Arwas: Glass: Art nouveau to Art Deco, published 1987.
Hugh Wakefield: Nineteenth Century British Glass, published 1982 (2nd edition)
Widar Halen: Christopher Dresser, published 1990.
Anne Geffken Pullin: Glass Signatures, Trademarks and Trade Names, published 1986.
Carolus Hartmann: Glasmarken Lexikon, published 1999.
Ivo Haanstra: Glass Fact File A - Z, published 2001.

[johnphilip]

Hi Thanks Angela,sorry i didnt address it to you,i am new to the site and dont know the ropes yet,it was the glass specialist at Lyon and Turnbull who told me they are very collectable and had a high value.many thanks.John

[Angela B]

A picture would be good, John,
And I'd like to hear if anyone else knows of Hanna Walton.
Don't worry about the name, I was trying to make a joke - which I shouldn't because I'm not good at it!

[Anne]

Glasgow Museum online collection gives a superb example of a Hannah Walton water set here... http://www.glasgowmuseums.com/shop.cfm?itemid=20&Showid=13&slideid=16 - are your finger bowls in this style, John?

There's a Helen or Hannah Walton vase here:
http://www.glasgowmuseums.com/shop.cfm?itemid=20&Showid=13&slideid=22#slide

and some ceramics in the same collection by Helen also.

[johnphilip]

Yes the theme is the same but mine appear to have a bit more artwork they have the full works of under water life, ie crabs shells plants flowers and fish. The bowls look very much like Harry Powell glass, fine blown,I will try to put some pics on,it may take a while.I had ten but i gave five to a good friend before i was told the value . thanks all,John

[Anne]

They sound lovely John and we'd love to see pictures of them. You can either add them directly to your post now using the attachment box below the reply screen or use GlassGallery as before. 

[Angela B]

Well done Anne.  Just goes to show, doesn't it. I thought I had looked everywhere. Hannah Walton it is - and didn't she do some nice work.
All the best
Angela

[Anne]

You probably did Angela, but there's new stuff coming on line every day and it takes the search engines a while to pick it up and return the results.