Topic: Help needed please - does anyone recognise this glass dish?

[seanduxbury]

Hi everyone. I hope someone can help. Does anyone recognise this glass dish (manufacturer & date). Found in the north west of england. Very heavy for its size - it measures 12 cms high x 20 cms in diameter and weighs 950 gms. The glass is very thick - approximately 1 cm.  There is a delicate pink tint to the glass which according to my research points towards Sowerby however I have been told it could be either Sowerby, Bagley or Davidson c1910 as they all produced similar designs about that time. Any help would be much appreciated. Regards Sean
http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm63/philippad2005/glassdish.jpg

[glassaddict]

Looks like Davidson Chippendale - Anne will know for sure  produced until the 1960's

Hil

[keith]

Probably relations of these,Chippendale if I remember right,Keith.

[TxSilver]

Keith, yours looks like the Chippendale made by Ohio Flint in the early 1900s. I read the pattern was later made by Central, Jefferson, then Davidson (1930s). Beyond the handles, I don't see a lot of similarity to the vase in this thread.

[keith]

Thought they came in all shapes and sizes so I presumed they were related,I may be wrong(again!)Keith.

[Anne]

It doesn't strike me as Chippendale to be honest, the handle is wrong as is the top. No idea who did make it though, sorry.

Keith's do look like Chippendale though, I have both those shapes in my Chippendale collection.

[glassaddict]

sorry my fault for jumping in with the chippendale idea 

Hil 

[Lustrousstone]

Similar designs can be seen in Czech and German catalogues. Ohio glass is much less likely here in the UK.

[seanduxbury]

Showing my complete lack of knowledge/experience here - would you describe this as a dish or a vase or what?

[Anne]

Sean, yours is a dish. These patterns come in a bewildering selection of shapes and sizes, so it's not always possible to know exactly what it was intended for, and of course many items were multi-functional - fruit, flowers, trifle and so on... (depending on the salesman's spiel!)

You say it's a slight pinky shade... is that more like a light lavender-pink? If so it could be slightly sun-purpled (a colour change in glass brought about by exposure to the sun.) More on sun-purpled glass here: http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,515.0.html