Topic: The Powerhouse Museum needs your help!

[aaronpowerhouse]

Hi all,

The Powerhouse Museum (component of the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences) in Sydney, Australia has recently digistised over 200 glass objects from our collection and we desperately need help to identify some of them. Any contribution that you can provide big or small (type, country, year, manufacturer etc) would be a tremendous help for our research.

Please follow the below links to the glass objects that we have very little information on (Unfortunately the file attachments we have of the objects are too big to add onto this post).

https://ma.as/182196
https://ma.as/191435

We will greatly appreciate any help that you can provide.

Aaron.

[Mosquito]

Hi Aaron,

Welcome to the board. Object 191435 - the cloud glass bowl - is not English. While Davidson (Gateshead, UK) are probably the best known makers of cloud glass, I believe this piece is by August Walther & Sohne, Germany. the pattern is probably 'Donau': see here in Chris & Val Stewart's Cloudglass site: http://cloudglass.com/walbowl.htm

The other item (182196) looks more English than Venetian to me. I believe it's a sugar bowl and would date c.1800, or maybe a little earlier. I haven't found an exact match, but there's a bowl with a similar domed foot, albeit in opal glass, shown on pl.157 of Crompton's English Glass. That one is described as 'Bristol', c. 1800. However, glass of this type is not my specialty, and the Crompton book is not the latest. Hopefully another member will be able to give you more info here.

Steven

[Lustrousstone]

I suspect this https://collection.maas.museum/object/182597 and this https://collection.maas.museum/object/189866 might be Scottish and not English and from the Alloa Glassworks

[Mosquito]

https://collection.maas.museum/object/198411 is British, made by by Bagley of Knottingley, seemingly aimed at the Australian market. It's pattern 3014 'Gum Leaf' vase/ planter. See http://www.bullworks.net/ffg/engpg/bagley/bagley.htm

A little more information on the mould-blown green Lalique vase here: https://collection.maas.museum/object/170385  This is the 'Biskra' pattern, no. 1078., introduced c. 1932