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Bowl, I can't identify

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Glassyone:
I don't know about going blind from googling but people do go myopic. I expect a few might get a DVT too.

This is a small bowl 13 cm across, with a lovely 'ping' and was a gift. It is not particularly light.  
 


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Regards Ruth

Glassyone:
Thankyou, I know we have owned it for 20- 30 years. Will see if my mother can remember where my father bought it.
Ruth.

Glassyone:
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It is hard to resolve this.

The 'not white' glass is opaque and it looks grey, both with the naked eye and with flash, it is not frosted.

Perhaps it is 'studio glass', now why do glass people make something like this and leave no identifying marks?

To me it seems this is odd, someone with some considerable skill, put effort in to making this and the glass seems to be of great quality, why did they not go the extra tiny bit, in terms of leaving any identity?
Ruth

KevinH:
Hi Ruth,

I don't think that the eBay piece, or your bowl, are truly "Nailsea" style.

The "Nailsea" style of swags / gadroons / pulled loops was much more "free hand" and the stripes generally varied in size, with many being quite thick. Also, the number of trails were fewer and were pulled into fewer loops.

But they might be "Victorian" since pulled-up trailing in that very neat style was developed in the late 19th century.

KevinH:
Hi Ruth,

When I think of "Nailsea style", I usually have in mind items such as those shown in http://www.hbe.co.uk/Glass.htm and in particular the "speckled" jugs / bottles and the white looped pipe.

However, your stemmed glass with orange looped decoration is, indeed, in a style that has been referred to as "Nailsea". See http://www.lady.co.uk/articles/0415artA.cfm?framed=y where, at the top right, there is a picture showing a decanter and tumbler in much the same decoration.

Unfortunately, the text in that second website seems to suggest that various items were actually made at Nailsea (and the author does not state the source of the information). Other literature, such as the booklet The Nailsea Glassworks by Margaret Thomas, tells us that Nailsea were crown glass and bottle manufacturers and that the decorated items, which gave rise to the term "Nailsea type", were simply "friggers" ("whimsies"). I would even be reluctant to refer to the cranberry bell with white looping, as shown in that website, as "Nailsea style". And as for Nailsea using "latticino" and "millefiori" techniques, well ... what will people come up with next?

Generally, I think that there's a lot of looped or threaded glassware which has been given the label "Nailsea" for no othetr reason than it has loops or threads.

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