Topic: Wrythen Amber glass vase help please

[brucebanner]

Hello there, i could with some help with this piece please. I have a pair and there made the same, hand blown  with a polished pontil, lots of seeds within the glass and a nice ring when tapped. Lovely honey colour.

I thought they were Whitefriars and as such have posted them on the Whitefriars Web forum and not had a response yet.

It's 6 inches in height 5 1/2 inches across the rim and 3 1/2 inches across the base.

Regards Chris.

[keith]

Seen a similar footed piece that was marked Webbs and there are some vases in Miller's 20th Century Glass also very much like yours that are attributed to Webbs,

[Bernard C]

Keith — which book were you looking at?

Bernard C. 

[Paul S.]

There's an optic-moulded vase, in gold-amber, in the Miller's/McConnell '20th Century Glass' attributed to T/Webb - page 66 - which bears a lot of pattern similarity to this piece, and might possibly be the item Keith had in mind.                         Certainly the spirals on the book example look very similar to this piece.         
The other fairly common T/Webb spiral design that comes to mind (also in amber/gold), is their celery vase.

None of which proves that this piece is T/Webb, but just that there are similarities.    

 

[keith]

Sorry Bernard, Paul's saved my bacon,  Millers 20th Century it was,

[brucebanner]

Thanks for your help guys, i'm surprised Paul these are common, i now own 50 books and have tried to research these on the internet and could not find anything on them. Oh well, another book i will try to get my hands on, regards Chris.

[Paul S.]

hi Chris  -  unfortunately, having lots of books isn't always the answer  -  not least because too many often means you then can't remember where you saw something ....   and remember that not all the information therein is correct.
I had a feeling that this design/colour had been shown on the Board previously, but when I tried the 'Search' facility couldn't see it.
We have some knowledgeable folk here regarding T/Webb, but this doesn't seem to be ringing bells, or at least not very loudly.

[Bernard C]

Chris — I have a spiral spaced rib by Webb with factory mark on a Flair base, but it's six ribs not eight.   Note that the Webb spirals are fairly even all the way from top to bottom.   If you have spaced ribs that are almost vertical and turn into a tight spiral near the top that is something quite different.

Paul & Keith — I have been confused for a long time by thinking that Andy McConnell's second book was the one he's been working on recently.   I have been confusing his second book with Judith Miller's useful work, which I do have.   Grateful thanks.   I have ordered a copy of McConnell II.

Bernard C. 

[Paul S.]

with hindsight probably unfortunate, and confusing, that both of Judith Miller's general books on twentieth century glass were titled  '20TH-Century Glass'.
As far as I can see, Andy McConnell wasn't associated with the first of these Miller's volumes (Dorling Kindersley 2004), and it was the second only (2006) where his name appears  -  so maybe not accurate to say McConnell II

Am I correct in saying that his current project concerns Scandinavian glass  -  had hoped he would be revising or offering a supplement to his Decanter volume, but not sure. 

[Lustrousstone]

Judith was only associated with one, as was Andy
Miller's 20th-Century Glass by Andy McConnell, 2006 published by Miller's, part of Octopus Publishing
20th-Century Glass by Judith Miller, 2004 published by Dorling Kindersley

(then of course there is 20th Century Glass by Mark Cousins, 1989 published by the Apple Press)