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basket, anyone?
josordoni:
I have a pair of amber tankards with wrythen blue handles, with Mary Gregory style paintings to the front
I had them on ebay - they didn't sell :cry:
but here is the link to the boy, if you would like to have a look, the colours seem lighter than this dish, but similar combination.
amber and blue tankard
Bernard C:
Lynne — There was a similar handle on my jug.
Bernard C. 8)
ChrisStewart:
Hi All,
You do see similar open baskets with four dolphin shaped feet and decorated with sea shells and the like. We have an amber one with a blue handle and a blue one with an amber handle. I have also seen the same basket in plain flint.
There was an article about them in one the the pressglas-korrespondenz issues a while back. If I remember correctly no maker was identified, but the author thought they were french.
Regards
Chris
josordoni:
Bernard - do you have a rough date for your piece? I am feeling edgy about these tankards, I have a gut feeling they are later than I first thought. The Mary Gregory forgeries are getting more and more like the real 19th c thing, there is only the base glass to go on these days.
:cry:
Bernard C:
--- Quote from: "josordoni" ---Bernard - do you have a rough date for your piece? I am feeling edgy about these tankards, I have a gut feeling they are later than I first thought. The Mary Gregory forgeries are getting more and more like the real 19th c thing, there is only the base glass to go on these days. ...
--- End quote ---
Lynne — Notley dates these to c1895. In style, perhaps, but the moulds always look rather knackered, a bit leaky. Notley also suggests German moulds, but a French or Belgian glass house. Having seen some factory reference collections on Murano containing wonderful Victorian English style glass still being made in the 1950s, I think you could add as much as 60 years to Notley's date, and still be a little optimistic.
I would be interested in how you know the difference between the old "Mary Gregory" glass and that which looks as if it has just been unpacked from the factory's boxes.
It is nice to find someone else showing a little caution about this glass.
Bernard C. 8)
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