Topic: Green & white cased jug... any clue as to maker please?

[Anne]

Stands about 10 inches tall. 

http://yobunny.org.uk/gallery1/displayimage.php?pos=-1029

[Tigerchips]

Italian? 1950's-60's?

[Anne]

Thanks TC, I'm clueless about this I really am. Not my usual area at all, but I needed a glass jug as a prop for the last play and spotted this one - it has a very small damage to the top rim and was cheap (£1) so I bought it. Just curious as to where it may have originated... would a look at its bottom help do you think?

[Max]

I would support Tigerchips thought, only later, maybe 1970's or so.  :? Ivo's good at this sort of item.  :?:

[Ivo]

tricky one - it might as well be contemp Chinese or Polish, the colour is a bit harsh for vintage Empoli and the neck cut at an angle has become very popular in the late 80-ies & 90-ies. The opal casing in the original article had a strong even white colour; this one seems almost translucent in the Dalian tradition.

[Anne]

Thank you all for your thoughts... it's quite a nice looking jug and the inside is a good white - not offwhite (although it has a nick out of the white so possibly a second?)

It's an absolute pig to photograph - I'm not sure that the pic is really showing the right colour even now - it came out a very odd shade to start with! I'll try and get a better shot of the colour, also the inside and the base. The handle is totally clear green and that shows the colour best of all.

[Anne]

I think I've found a sibling of my mystery jug... t'other Anne has a blue one which looks so similar, and hers is labeled Ekenas...  what do you think? Do we have a match?
Mine:     http://yobunny.org.uk/gallery1/displayimage.php?pos=-1029
Anne's: http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-5604

[Cathy B]

The handles are different - but that might be explained by them having been applied. Yours also looks a bit more bulbous and a lot less opaque - but is that the camera angle and lighting? 

[sph@ngw]

Can i throw in the ring, "Portuguese" for the one with a green handle and green foot? We used to import in the 1970's for John Wuidart (anyone remeber him, a real character who opened waterford Crystal's London office and promised them sales of £1m in the Uk within 5 years. I thin he did it in 3 and they gave him a brand new XJ6 Jag as a gift) a green handles clear bodied tankard from a Stephens? factory in Marinha Grande. One is sitting on my credenza in my office ( haven't a clue what a credenza is but mine is a nice rosewood sideboard low sliding cabinet!)
The green opal jug is a beauty, Murano or perhaps Whitefriars, they did a ruby one similar but do not have sizes! Did W/Friars do green opal of this hue?
Not a lot of help but......

[Pinkspoons]

Whitefriars, to my knowledge, never produced opal cased glass of any kind. And their beaked jugs had pulled rims, rather than ground down.

I would say that it's a fair match for the Ekenas jug - even taking the handle variation into account - but I don't know anything about Ekenas' production colours, so I could be wrong.