Andy — Thanks for your kind words.
Walsh applied for the trademark
Vesta Venetian on 16 October 1907, launching the range to the trade on 1 November in an advertisement in
The Pottery Gazette.
The advertisement contains a small drawing, and it is difficult to tell which of the two styles of
Vesta Venetian was illustrated.
The first of these was Walsh mother-of-pearl.
The second was the fiery bone-ash opalescent coloured style, of which you saw several examples on my stand at Gaydon, and of which your pedestal vase is a good example.
About four years ago I had the same problem as you, but I came from the opposite direction. Initially I had not seen stemmed and footed examples, and had identified both styles with full confidence. I then started acquiring pieces in the second style like your vase with fiery bone-ash opalescent stems and feet. What worried me was that these stems and feet were a perfect match to known Italian glass, for example see
here.
Accordingly I showed examples to the foremost authority on Murano and Italian glass, who kindly confirmed to me that not only were they not Murano or Italian, but that they were very English in style, obviously so, and the pedestal vase was certainly no earlier than the early 1920s, and possibly much later. Some may have even been made post-war, up to the closure of the Walsh factory in 1951.
So my confidence was restored.
Bernard C.
Topic: John Walsh Walsh , Venetian style, thanks Bernard C at Gaydon (Read 1875 times)
