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Edward Moore RD.58275 - jug & sugar in "Caramel"
Sid:
Hello Paul
--- Quote from: Paul S. on December 03, 2013, 10:27:03 AM ---could well be wrong, but I remain to be convinced that Neil's pieces are Moore's 'eau de nil'...........
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I am unclear as to whether you are questioning if Neil's pieces are Moore or if they are "eau de nil"? Regardless, here is a link to an ebay auction with an "eau de nil" sugar basin in the same pattern as Anne originally posted:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/161145890995
I do have photos of a cream and sugar in this pattern and colour but they are not mine to share unfortunately.
Sid
agincourt17:
I will contact the ebay seller and seek permission for the re-use of the image of the eau-de-nil sugar on the GMB.
Fred.
Paul S.:
thanks Sid - I was being sceptical about the issue of colour................... 'eau de nil' seems to be an elusive colour for which to find verification in the books - as far as I'm aware none of my volumes includes a colour picture of this invention.
Neil has described his two pieces as 'turquoise, which presumably must mean they are shaded more to the blue than green, and looking at them I didn't get an immediate feeling they appeared sufficiently green enough for what I assumed 'eau de nil' must look like.
I can only repeat the words of Ed. Moore himself having first created this, when he said......"glass of a soft shade of green colour"......although I know we've commented earlier about the problems of colour variation.
I don't doubt the pattern is Moore.
As I've said, I don't have any pieces of this colour, and may be getting carried away with what my mind thinks it should be seeing - also am aware that other contributors to this thread are almost certainly better informed about pressed glass and its colours than I am.
Being permanently a 'doubting thomas', I'd still like to see a comparison with Moore's ordinary blue Vitro-Porcelain - but will admit that the piece in your ebay link does have more of a 'celadon' appearance. :)
neilh:
The colour of these things is tricky to capture in a photo as the flash makes them look more blue than they really are. I would say they were pretty close to eau de nil.
Now for the bad news - I donated these pieces to charity some months ago (sorry Sid!)
Sid:
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