Topic: Jug and vases..

[keith]

The jug is around 9 ins high and quite heavy,the hyacinth vase is 7 ins,thin glass and the smaller one 6 ins,I know Chances did similar with the green 'frit' pattern on their spiderweb range, are these just generic copies too general to place or is there a genius out there that can tell me all about them?Keith.

[Lustrousstone]

These are not Chance. The effect was a special sort of sticky transfer thing supplied by Johnson Matthey called Matthey Crinkles to which frit was appled before heating. Anyone, anywhere could have bought it. I suspect these are British as they are so common but I could be wrong

[keith]

Didn't think they were Chances,got a sugar bowl aswell,never heard of Johnson Matthey will look it up,ta,Keith.

[Ivo]

British bulb vases, never found anywhere else but in Britain - though I hears whisper new information will turn up soon to show that these are, in fact, Czech.  I'd need to see it all on paper first, though.

[Lustrousstone]

That wouldn't surprise me either Ivo. We have so much lower end Czech glass here; unfortunately, little of the high end stuff. Almost every charity shop will have something of this ilk with gilding and crinkles.

Johnson Matthey were THE UK transfer makers and gilding suppliers for glass and ceramics and probably big exporters as well. Some of their transfer patterns can be found on glass and china.

[Ivo]

and still in the same business - sort of.
http://www.matthey.com/

[Sklounion]

How about Czech-made, to British importer commission, ie BAG Ltd or Heppner? Such stuff could easily have come from the Uzitkove Sklo decorating plant, at Novy Bor, and Langhamer ("Bohemian Glass" 1985), clearly identifies screen-process printing and transfer techniques as being particular to this works, (Crystalex Works 2 from 1974), which was rebuilt in 1967.
M

[keith]

I'm finding it amazing that living close to such glass houses like Webbs,Richardsons,Stourbridge etc...Walsh,Chances and all the other Birmingham makers I have so many pieces from Czech rep' and mainland Europe(not forgetting the USA)Who's got all the 'Midlands' glass?Keith.

[Carolyn Preston]

I'm finding it amazing that living close to such glass houses like Webbs,Richardsons,Stourbridge etc...Walsh,Chances and all the other Birmingham makers I have so many pieces from Czech rep' and mainland Europe(not forgetting the USA)Who's got all the 'Midlands' glass?Keith.

Australia, the US and Ullapool  :24: :24: :24: :24: :24:

Carolyn

[keith]

Ullapool?never heard of it!Keith.