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*NEW* Visit (3 Feb): Smethwick Heritage Centre, Chance Glass
Anne E.B.:
Many thanks Anne for your interesting comments (I'll have to get hold of that book!) - and Bernard for identifying it as Chance, as I suspected. Fascinating stuff. A great buy for £1.29 !!! I wonder if Reginald Goodden had anything to do with the designs for prism glass for lighthouses? (I'll have to get hold of the Jackson book also!) Interesting how functionalism influences art/aesthetics and of course vice versa. Difficult to separate at times. :P
Regards - Anne E.B. :P
Edited to include thanks to Marcus also. :D
Bernard C:
According to Evans, there are as many as nine churches and other properties in Cumbria that could be fitted with Whitefriars stained glass, although the records do not indicate which commissions were actually installed. None of these designs carry the designer's name. Date range 1924–62. See the book for a detailed list.
Further information on Chance at the Cambridge Glass Fair website.
Bernard C. 8)
Anne:
Thanks Bernard, I shall have to check this book out, it's one I should have on my shelf and haven't. The one I was meaning was, I think, Aldingham. I'll have to check tomorrow.
Anne E.B.:
Bernard, I think I've found a companion for my Chance celery vase, and may be this is like the one that Anne saw and wished later she had bought. Could this perhaps be the Utility Dish you previously referred to? (Spiderweb pattern based on lighthouse lenses - designed by Robert Goodden).
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y195/glassie/chance002.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y195/glassie/chance004.jpg
Here it is alongside the vase. It has a wonderful ring to it. I think its quite beautiful and to my mind would sit well alongside Scandinavian makes of the day. Very undervalued I think :?
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y195/glassie/chance005.jpg
Regards - Anne E.B. :wink:
Bernard C:
Nice find, Anne. You can see now why they called it Spiderweb.
Now for other examples of the range — there is a milk or cream jug shown in Jackson, which could imply a sugar, and two more sizes of bowl shown in Hollowood. I could be wrong, but I have vague memories of a covered butter and a lemonade set. ... and look out for SOS lidded cube sugars with integral sprung tongs — as both Davidson and Walsh made them (yes, Walsh did make pressed glass tableware), there is a chance that Chance also made them in Spiderweb.
Bernard C. 8)
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