Topic: Could this be Webb?? Help Please

[Pat]

Had a great day at the local charity shop! Bought a Whitefriars nailhead vase for £3 which is a keeper. Then the following bowl which I want to sell but need to know what it is in order to describe properly. Any help greatfully received.  It is 10" diameter and 4" high with a polished pontil, very heavy and dark amethyst wavy rib.

http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/albums/userpics/10023/ebay%201607.jpg

[Tigerchips]

Stuart also made things like this didn't they?

[ChrisH]

I think the answer to the original question is "Yes"! I have a couple of Webb bowls which look to be an identical shape, both signed but from a diffferent range - the one with blobs, err ... is it hobnail?? If so I think that's a rubbish name because the blobs are too widely spaced to be hobnails LoL, but I'm sure I've seen them described as such!

[Cathy B]

Is this definitely Webb?

[Bernard C]

Cathy — This example is certainly Webb, guaranteed, no doubt at all.   Pity there wasn't a pattern repeat count supplied, but from the photograph it looks like four.   I believe at least one other Greater Stourbridge glass house made this pattern, possibly with a different pattern repeat count.

Why is there such a general reluctance to provide rib and other pattern counts?   Weird isn't it?

Bernard C. 

[Cathy B]

Keep reminding people, Bernard, and it should sink in. I'm continually amazed at how much can be learned from tools, dip moulds, stencils and the like.

[Bernard C]

Thanks for your encouragement, Cathy.   I can assure you that it's not the most usual response! 

Bernard C. 

[KevinH]

Why is there such a general reluctance to provide rib and other pattern counts?   Weird isn't it?

It has been just as "weird" in the world of paperweights where it has taken a very long time for people to accept that the way the base is finished can often be important, amongst other factors, in determining an attribution. But still many folk only ever show, or describe, a general "top" view of their prized item and seem bemused when asked for descriptions of base or side views.