Topic: Isle of Wight glass vase??

[lyndhurst44]

Hi,
I recently purchased this pink and mauve glass vase at a local Antique fair quite cheaply mainly because it had attractive iridescent finish. On returning home I noticed that it had a coach bolt type Pontil mark aka early IOW.
Am I on the right track please?
Thanks

[chopin-liszt]

No, and I'm afraid that is not what a "coach-bolt" pontil mark looks like, that is just a heat finished pontil scar.

The coach-bolt mark requires a blob of glass to be applied to the mark, then an old coach bolt was pushed into it, to make a round, impressed cavity in that blob of glass. (An old coach bolt just happened to be lying around at the time.)

Your bowl looks a bit more Midsummer-y (Dillon Clarke) to me than anything produced by IoWSG.

[glassobsessed]

Midsummer looks spot on.

John

[lyndhurst44]

Nothing new there then! I was even more confident as I just saw a very similar albeit smaller vase that sold very nicely on fleabay with an Isle of Wight assumption. That was in completed listings.

[lyndhurst44]

Hang on folks the sun's gone in.

[lyndhurst44]

Hi,
A few years ago I did actually correspond with Dillon Clark with reqard to the sunshine pontil mark on a large Midsummer vase I had purchased. she did explain that the mark was their "trademark" and would have been seen as a logo on all their wares.
My new vase however does not have a Sun pontil. Shouldn't that rule out Midsummer?

[chopin-liszt]

I don't know. Sorry. I was going purely by the style. I really know very little about Midsummer - apart from how to recognise the kind of rather paisley patternish elongated drip shapes of the swirls and blobs, along with a lot of pink and subtle iridesence.
I do have a Dillon Clarke piece, but it's early, from the RCA, which was where my interest was.

[glassobsessed]

Plenty to be found without the pontil mark, usually they are a bit wonky...

[lyndhurst44]

Thanks Sue and 'wonky' John.

[glassobsessed]

You insult me because you don't like what I have to say?