Topic: Unsual cased blue sculpture piece??

[BRADBURY7308]

Bought this little cracker today i love it its cased blue with clear around the edges with an offcentre lip on the top and a very neat little polished pontil underneath fair amount of wear also, It has made me trawl whitefriars collectors club but not found this colour or size but they did a similar item any ideas is it w/f???

[jonchellycain]

hi it does look very similar to the whitefriars pattern number 9645 i had one a while back http://www.whitefriars.com/isit_contents.php?ID=7388 but as you say the colour doesnt fit with whitefriars the closest it comes up to is antique blue, but i dont beleiev ive ever actaully seen a piece to compare it with (the colour chart is a bit off when comparing to something in your hand sometimes)
have you listed on the whitefriars site? they would tell you for definate if it was whitefriars or not
what is the size??
all the best
michelle

[BRADBURY7308]

Thanks michelle was that your red one ive been trying to make mine look like!!lol   Mines a little under 5" accross but depends where you measure, what size was your's? Preety similar too 9514 also. good download that.

[Anne]

Reminds me of a Per Lutken offset bowl in smokey grey which Nic mentioned a while back... 

[jonchellycain]

mine was 4.5 inches across so not a great deal of difference, the opening looks alot bigger than on mine too.

[langhaugh]

It looks like something heavily influenced by the Per Lutken piece, but the base looks wrong (and no signature).

David

[glassobsessed]

The proportions of the bowl look to be different from the Lutken bowls (here is a photo of two from Holmegaard).

John

[Pip]

Looks like Whitefriars in Kingfisher Blue - the KB can vary quite a lot in tone and depth depending on the thickness of the piece and if there was a clear casing or not.

[jonchellycain]

Personally i think it is likely to be whitefriars, although ive never seen a kingfisher blue this dark. If it was mine i would pop it onto the whitefriars site just to get the colour verified

[Pip]

I've had Kingfisher Blue pieces that were almost a turquoise and others that were a very deep blue - this looks right for KB (I have loads of it in at the moment).

Compare the colouring on the two pieces in the links below (from my SOLD archives) - both pieces are Kingfisher Blue.

http://www.pips-trip.co.uk/sold-glass-archives/british-glass-1/showitem-R-BLUE-BOWL2.aspx

http://www.pips-trip.co.uk/sold-glass-archives/british-glass-1/showitem-WFKNOBBLY-1.aspx