In Sheilagh Murray’s book “ The Peacocks and the Lions…”, plate 56 shows a group of four yellow pearline glass articles (all of which she attributes to George Davidson).
The three to the right of the group are well documented as being by Davidson of Gateshead.
The piece on the extreme left of the group is a yellow opalescent vase of basically cuboid form with small looped ‘ears’ to the top edges of the side angles. There is no mention of identifying marks on this piece, and I know of no documentation to definitively attribute this design or pattern (either registered or unregistered) to Davidson, although the yellow opalescent glass appears to be similar in hue and opalescence to the accompanying attributable yellow pearline Davidson articles.
I do, though, have some photos to show of similar pieces in blue opalescent glass that is very similar in hue and opalescent to that of known Davidson blue pearline pieces:
A blue opalescent glass vase similar to that shown in yellow opalescent glass by Murray (with three horizontal rows of diamond-chequered panels to each side, topped by a plain, narrow,‘bobbled’ border on two sides and a slightly wider border of ‘bobbles’ above a row of diamonds on the two opposite sides ).
In addition, there is another (slightly paler) blue opalescent glass vase broadly similar to that above, but a little bigger, and with four horizontal rows of slightly different diamond-chequered panels, topped by a narrow border on two sides and a slightly wider border of ‘bobbles’ above three rows of tiny beads on the two opposite sides).
(Permission for the re-use of these images on the GMB granted by Kevin Collins).
I think the fact that there are blue opalescent versions of the vase with hue and opalescence similar to that of attributable blue pearline Davidson pieces lends weight to Murray’s putative attribution of the pieces as being by Davidson but I still await definitive evidence of attribution.
Does anyone have photos of any of the versions in different colours (or even more versions) to show, please?
Fred