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Author Topic: Royo Blue glass enameled elephant  (Read 2713 times)

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Offline glassobsessed

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Re: Royo Blue glass enameled elephant
« Reply #10 on: August 23, 2011, 03:32:46 PM »
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Re: Royo Blue glass enameled elephant
« Reply #11 on: August 23, 2011, 04:28:51 PM »
I got this one at a weekly auction in Hartselle Alabama. To my eye the enameling seems inferior. I have seen so many fakes of other things lately is sure would seem somebody is up to something if that many of these surface at the same time. But then maybe someone found a stash. Does anyone know if the oldest Royo are better quaity enameling?

I sure thank you for all your help. The feet under this one look just like the ones others have shared on this thread.

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Re: Royo Blue glass enameled elephant
« Reply #12 on: August 23, 2011, 05:17:06 PM »
I can't remember where I read it now, but Royo worked into the 80s. That the enamel work is inferior indicates that there is a good chance it was Royo. Enamel on his pieces are thinner and generally less attractive than the ones decorated by Genis Cirera. I have the feeling that Royo was a bit younger than Cirera and that both did the bulk of their work in Barcelona using blanks bought from Gordiola. It is difficult to find any information on Royo, however, so I am just guessing based on when they stopped making glass.

It is apparent that the elephant is molded. It may be that the mold was copied by Stiver or sold to Stiver. The color of the elephant looks very much like Gordiola. I have seen a few other molds pass around the European countries, so it wouldn't be unusual for both places to have the same design.
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Re: Royo Blue glass enameled elephant
« Reply #13 on: August 23, 2011, 05:30:17 PM »
Additional info: gordiola never did pressed glass, stiver produced every conceivable glass colour. The mystery of Royo is still unsolved...

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Re: Royo Blue glass enameled elephant
« Reply #14 on: August 23, 2011, 11:10:29 PM »
The links that Rosie gave above give "1920s" probably only as a continuation of an idea that Moser were somehow involved. The Invaluable page has, in the description: "... attributed to Moser who produced designs for the Spanish market in the 1920s." And I suspect the eBay listing simply uses a similar assumption that has become well engrained over the years.
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Re: Royo Blue glass enameled elephant
« Reply #15 on: August 24, 2011, 09:05:12 AM »
The links that Rosie gave above give "1920s" probably only as a continuation of an idea that Moser were somehow involved. The Invaluable page has, in the description: "... attributed to Moser who produced designs for the Spanish market in the 1920s." And I suspect the eBay listing simply uses a similar assumption that has become well engrained over the years.

A bit like my Chinese birds being described as Murano. :grrr:
I hate urban myths, and now I feel badly that I might has just inadvertantly perpetuated one.....sorry. :pb:
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Re: Royo Blue glass enameled elephant
« Reply #16 on: August 24, 2011, 12:38:57 PM »
You are in good company, Rosie. Gary Baldwin's books on Moser glass have probably been the biggest thing promoting that these were probably made by Moser in the 1920s for the Spanish marketplace. Whoever came up with that idea, I don't know. It was easily debunked by just asking Moser. They may not have had the ease of access when Baldwin was writing his books. I am sorry that these things get put down in print. Many people on eBay still list them as Moser.
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Re: Royo Blue glass enameled elephant
« Reply #17 on: August 24, 2011, 11:13:40 PM »
Thank you so much for all your help.  :hiclp: :rah:

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