Does anyone recognise this pressed glass bowl? I'm sure I've seen it before, but can't think where. (Apologies for atrocious pics, but I couldn't bear to wait for daylight to get better ones!)
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-9293http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-9292I bought it and its siblings on instinct in the hopes that it might be by Alexander Hardie Williamson for Sherdley. Tending to support this attribution:
- like Sherdley's other bowls of this period (eg Regency and Doric), it's part of a fruit set of one large and six small bowls
- similar size, weight and quality to Regency and Doric
- innovative use of pressed glass typical of Sherdley's post-war production (ie not imitating cut glass)
- Regency and Doric also have motifs on the base
- other Sherdley designs of this period have turned up with various forms of surface decoration (Johnson Matthey crinkles, screen printing, transfers, gilding, hand painting, engraving) - though it's not clear whether the decoration was carried out by Sherdley (other than the screen-printed tumblers range introduced in 1958, all their advertising shows undecorated designs) or by another company/ companies to whom Sherdley sold the blanks.
Against the attribution is the fact that I haven't come across this design in any of Sherdley's advertising. But there is a reference in a 1961 press release to a range of bowls and dishes called Snowflake. Given the motif on the base, could this be it?
Any thoughts or alternative attributions would be very welcome!
For reference, pics of Doric and Regency:
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-9270http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-9269http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-9207http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-9206http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-9272http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-9273