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Cut blue drinking glass or posy vase with star cut square base
bat20:
Nice John,are the dimensions wrong for a egg cup?
Lustrousstone:
Cobalt blue is Bristol blue; the raw material was imported through Bristol initially
Paul S.:
thanks Christine.
I'm thinking that the cut and bevelled rim indicates a non-British origin - perhaps in some sense Ivo has already suggested that.
In terms of genuinely old pieces, then square bases can occur on big and small items - from quite dinkie monteiths/jellies, up to very large candlesticks - on many drinking glasses the square base was made by moulding (which included a recessed moulded star) and then ground/polished to give the finished square shape we see.
glassobsessed:
Very interesting, all of the cutting and polishing lacks precision, I could easily be persuaded that this has had some modification. There are a couple of teeny tiny nibbles on corners but otherwise it seems very clean.
As it happens I don't quite agree with the 'if it is old it must be damaged' maxim, older items usually are but not always. I have had utterly perfects bit of 120 year old Salviati which are incredibly prone to damage.
Paul S.:
have to say John, that like Chris, virtually all of my Georgian/Regency pieces with square feet do show damage to some extent on the foot, and it's usually on the corners or edges - none has a foot as good as your example.
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