Topic: is the glass a modern replacement ? who can say ..

[claretjugcollector]

i like this jug - i like the mounting - i like the style - but thats it - the glassbody makes my head ache .. it is very easy to replace a glass like this .... where are the experts please ... anyway - the price rather funny !

http://www.the-saleroom.com/Catalogues/Item.aspx?itemId=9719509

[Anne]

It looks fine to me, stylistically a match I'd have thought, and Powell glass (i.e. Whitefriars) would fit with Knox and Liberty. Price reflects what the auctioneers expect it to fetch as a quality piece - Fieldings are considered to know what they're doing re glass, but I'd await other opinions as well, as this is just my personal viewpoint.

[claretjugcollector]

thats a beginning ! many thx for that !

[jinxi]

Hi Thomas

I would think the glass is is rather more beautiful and colourful in reality!  Plain yes, but I would think that the colour would be gorgeous.  Perhaps you should look at sea green glass of a similar age on www.whitefriars.com which may give you a better idea? Personally, I would think buy or don't buy but don't buy with a view to replacing the glass!  The photo concentrates on the handle only, perhaps it is a bad photo or maybe the auctioneer agrees with you that the glass isn't worthy and is deliberately drawing all attention to the handle!

Veronica

[claretjugcollector]

 :pb:

the image is bad - anyway i asked them for a condition report and if they could imagine that the glass is a modern replacement - lets wait and see what happens ...!

there was another jug some months ago .... at wooley / wallis :

http://www.the-saleroom.com/priceguide/Item.aspx?itemId=9093591

fake glass - kosher - ?? who can say ?!?!? :spls:

[jinxi]

Hi Thomas

The image won't open for me but having looked at your response to my other posting and info about the other collection, this caught my eye

http://www.claretjugs.com/screen/979s.html

Archibald Knox, the description says green but, to me, the photo looks yellow!

Veronica

[jinxi]

....... also dated to same year now that I have looked at your photo again!

Veronica

[Leni]

Colour is very difficult to judge from a photo, but the decanter Thomas first asked about doesn't look like Whitefriars Sea Green to me.  It looks more like WF Emerald or Early Sky Blue - the two colours can be difficult to tell apart when the glass is thin.  I'm going by the colour in the knop, where it's thickest, and it looks too blue-y to me to be WF Sea. 

Beautiful piece, whatever the colour!