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Mysterious Vaseline Figurine
Leni:
Hey, I googled and found this one! :shock: http://tinypic.com/a2pvm9.jpg (copyright The Milk Glass Collectors Society)
Do you think they could be related? :shock: :lol:
Leni
Glen:
Hey Leni - she sure could be a first cousin. :lol: You google good!
I have a photo of the milk glass lady in Lattimore's book - it shows the blue milk glass lady in yellow vaseline. Says she is unmarked but he suggests Derbyshire. On her plinth I can see the word Victoria. Then there's a Britannia with the helmet and Union flag shield in green glass that is marked Derbyshire.
I can't help feeling that our Britoria (or is she Victannia?) is somehow unfinished.
Glen
Anonymous:
methinks the lady stands on the same plinth as the Derbyshire lion <roar> and if I remember correctly - was it not Landseer which inspired Nelson's column which inspired Derbyshire? Brittania in the comfy chair may be a glowing representation of some monument, perhaps?
Ivo
Leni:
--- Quote from: "Anonymous" ---Brittania in the comfy chair may be a glowing representation of some monument, perhaps?
Ivo
--- End quote ---
"Not the 'Comfy Chair'!" :lol:
Actually, isn't there is a statue of Queen Vic, sort of in this pose, outside somewhere called the Queen Victoria Building somewhere in in Australia?
"Or did I dream it?" :lol:
Leni (in full 'Monty Python quotes' mode :wink: )
Connie:
Is this the same piece which you are referring to as the Derbyshire Lion?
Leni's comments made me think to look in my Milk Glass Collector's book which is where I found the lion. I agree that the base is very similar to Glen's lady.
This is some of what Chiarenza and Slater say about this piece
--- Quote ---Shown by Slack in translucent green glass (plate XXVII), it is unmarked and dated circa 1890. Slack attributes this, and an almost identical but slightly different version to Henry Greener, and suggests it is probably unmarked because it dates "from the period after Henry Greener & Co. was acquired by James Jobbing" pg. 94
--- End quote ---
Edited to correct my typos in the quote. It is hard to type while holding open the book with one hand :lol:
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