Topic: Is this jug M***** - ID = Moser

[lyndhurst44]

Hi,
I just read Andy's S****** post and I would like to share a similar experience I had a couple of weeks ago just before my computer wen't on the blink . I have suddenly become very attracted to old enamelled glass probably because I'm getting old and quite enamelled myself!!
It was Sunday afternoon and the boot sale had been rained off so I was watching closing items on Ebay as usual and along came this listing for a glass vase, so I took a peak and was quite pleased with what I saw. The vase was an Ewer and was enamelled so just up my current street. There had been no previous bids which was suprising so I put a very late sniped bid for £15 and won the item for the starting bid of £3.50 with free postage!
So what do you guys (and Gals) think, was it money well spent. I hope so because I did a similar action on a perfume bottle auction last night.

Cheers,
Bryn

[lyndhurst44]

Hi again,

Perhaps this will give a better view.

Cheers,
Bryn

[Lustrousstone]

Those pix are fine. It looks very nicely enamelled 

[Ivo]

lovely enameling work of hornet on vine leaves, sorry the stopper is missing. I'd be looking at either Legras, Sèvres or Harrach.

[Galle]

I think Bohemian, definitely - what does the bottom look like?

[lyndhurst44]

Hi,
They all sound good to me Ivo, but yes it is a pity about the stopper. What sort of stopper would it have had?
With regard to the base Galle it has a Whitefriars style polished pontil and some worn gilded numbers possibly 2255 or 2235,  3 numbers being quite legable but the 3rd has mostly worn away.

Cheers and Good Night All,
Bryn

[Galle]

I think there's a good chance the decoration on this piece was done by Julius Mülhaus in Novy Bor around the turn of the 20th century. They purchased blanks from Harrach, Meyr's Neffe, etc - which makes the M***** comparison a reasonable one.

[Ivo]

a ball stopper on a short stem

[krsilber]

Very nice!  I don't understand why it would necessarily have had a stopper.  Is the inside of the neck ground?  Seems a tough one to attribute with much certainty, there were so many companies using insect motifs around then.

[lyndhurst44]

Very nice!  I don't understand why it would necessarily have had a stopper.  Is the inside of the neck ground?  Seems a tough one to attribute with much certainty, there were so many companies using insect motifs around then.

No there is no sign that the inside of the neck has been ground, it is as clear as the rest of the piece.
I wonder are there other web sites where examples of these old enamelled glass item can be compared? I have seen those paraded on the Great Glass website and I think this site first directed me towards the likelyhood that it was a Moser piece.
Thanks,
Bryn.