Topic: Iridescent Green Bubbly or Bubble Glass Bowl

[Andy]

Nice bowl, 1st half of 20th Century, Bubbly Green blown glass, polished pontil mark and an iridescent finish. Quite big, 5 1/2 inches tall, 8 1/2 inches wide.
Any ideas ?
Cheers
Andy

[keith]

Walsh? S&W's ?,sticking my head out again ,awaiting the axe

[Andy]

Not from me Keith, they are 2 of my possible ideas anyway ! 

[Paul S.]

Definitely Walsh - I have an identical bowl, also with that iridescent finish, and good quality pontil depression, although regrettably no backstamp.    Will post a pic. if I can find my bowl.

[Paul S.]

It is of course from the 'Pompeian' range  -  iridescence not easy to catch with the camera, but think it does show up here reasonably well.

[flying free]

Paul,what is the reference for this please?  I can't find the shape or a piece that has that particular merese and foot shape.
Many thanks
m

[Lustrousstone]

I'm not sure where the Walsh attribution comes from either 

[Paul S.]

my bowl was posted some eighteen months - two years ago and confirmed as Walsh at that time.       Sorry, I don't have a book reference for you, and assume you are speaking of Reynolds when you say you can't find this shape.         He does say that most of the Walsh records were destroyed when the factory closed in 1951 - and we know that not all of the shapes are shown in the coloured pictures  -  I've also been informed that this kind of iridescence was a Walsh characteristic on Pompeian pieces.         Is it possible that we can get Bernard to comment again on this please.

[chopin-liszt]

I was keeping schtum - my first fleeting thoughts were Walsh Pompian, but the iridesence put me right off the notion.

[flying free]

http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,29989.msg162636.html#msg162636
This is an old thread dating to 2009 so it could be the information is out of date perhaps but Bernard says there

' Attributing unmarked Walsh Pompeian, of which there is a fair amount, is quite tricky.   Almost all the patterns made are shown in the factory pattern books reproduced in Reynolds, either as Pompeian or Iridescent.   I've only found two exceptions.   There were one or two very similar contemporary ranges, and it's still being made today, as you will see if you go into the souvenir shop at a major Roman site like Segedunum or Arbeia.'

m