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Amber celery vase?Webbs?
vidrioguapo:
LOL! You just have to get a "Webb feeling" going Paul...........takes time and effort!
I will go mad if I see another of these advertised on ebay as Whitefriars!!!! :o
chopin-liszt:
It's it's Webb that should Sunshine amber, if it contains Uranium, it's certainly not Honey amber!
(I believe Lustrousstone has identified some bowls as Honey amber, it's an odd colour - a bit greeny browny, but glows like billy-oh in sunlight.)
Paul S.:
oh, Emmi, I'm all for touchy feely ;) As we all know, these things come in much bigger sizes, and are then called 'bucket' vases - and are most often attributed, wrongly as you say, to W/Fs. - most probably because of the controlled bubbles and colour (and most obviously of all, because most of the public have heard of W/Fs., but wouldn't automatically think of Webb). The large examples I've seen have smaller bubbles (more like W/Fs. bubbles - just to confuse things). I am definitely a Webb's man (can't afford the W/Fs. prices - 'Tulip' vase at Ardingly the other week, and he wanted £400!!!!). I have a piece of Richardson's in amethyst (1920 ish) - which you might mistake for Webb - so not an easy area to feel sure of attribution, especially if you're missing a back stamp.
chopin-liszt:
I've got a large amethyst bucket vase with slightly elongated but evenly-sized controlled bubbles.
I have been told it's wfs - I'm not sure I was convinced. It's very finely blown, much more so than a flared Webb controlled bubble bowl I have, but that's cased.
Jury's still out on my bucket - did wfs make flared rim buckets with controlled bubbles at all?
nigel benson:
Well,
Don't be surprised if these turn out to be Edinburgh Crystal! Of course both Edinburgh Crystal (Edinbugh & Leith) and Richardsons are linked directly to Thomas Webb, so none of the three would be surprising really :huh: ;)
Nigel
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