Topic: Victorian purple rim bowl & jug

[Simba]

Can anyone help me ID this lovely jug and bowl. They have a graduated purple rim and the body of both has a panelled effect they stand on crimped base with a rough pontil 

[Paul S.]

hello Angela.............Assuming this to be a genuine period piece, than your colour might just be amethyst rather than purple..........I've looked through Gulliver and there are shed loads of variations on ruby and cranberry with some orange and amber, but purple I can't see.
S. & W. did produce a very similar colour shading like your piece, but called it amethyst which faded to clear lower down.        A date of something like c. 1900 might be somewhere around the time.          I'm not saying yours is an example of this S. & W. style, but just that it looks similar - am sure one of the other girls will have a better idea.
These feet are called pincered work I believe, and yours appear to have a plain ribbing pattern, although sometimes they have a daisy pattern.

But, first I suggest you make sure this is late Victorian  -  look for wear in all the usual places  -  your lucky if you have all feet intact - they are so ofter damaged.

[Simba]

These are certainly   genuine Victorian pieces I was given them today by an elderly family friend she is 96 but says they were her mothers and they may have been a Wedding present they have just sat in the glass cabinet ever since. All the feet are intact and I would described the colour as amethyst. It fades out to clear glass by half way down the pieces. The picture below may show this better... apart from the odd air bubble they are perfect. Sorry to be so ignorant but who are S  & W ?

[Lustrousstone]

Undoubtedly Victorian but I doubt you'll find a maker - one of the smaller ones, as the quality isn't great. I have one probably from the same maker http://lustrousstone.co.uk/cpg/displayimage.php?pid=1727

(S&W = Stevens and Williams)

[Paul S.]

I was being cautious Angela - the screen is not infallible when it comes to determining age, and it's not difficult to make a mistake.      So much Victorian decorative glass is unattributable, and Christine is quite correct in saying that it's unlikely you'll find a maker - but these are nice pieces and this amethyst appears to be a rare colour - certainly going by examples in the books - so it seems you have some desirable pieces there  -  congratulations.
I would still go with the date I suggested, roughly, with perhaps a little leeway. 

[Simba]

  Thanks Paul