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Author Topic: flowered paperweight I/D ? ID = Salvador Ysart  (Read 1733 times)

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Offline malcmat

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flowered paperweight I/D ? ID = Salvador Ysart
« on: August 05, 2015, 06:24:48 PM »
Hi, any ideas of age / country with regard to this huge 1.6kg flowered paperweight 3 3/4 inches tall /9.7cm and 4 3/4 inches tall /12.1cm  Rough broken pontil mark with ware marks to base .
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Malcolm

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Re: flowered paperweight I/D ?
« Reply #1 on: August 05, 2015, 07:08:36 PM »
I seem to remember an article somewhere that Salvador Ysart made some similar potted flowers and with that smoky glass too???

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Re: flowered paperweight I/D ?
« Reply #2 on: August 05, 2015, 07:40:00 PM »
Wow Nick77 it would be great if it could be substantiated.

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Re: flowered paperweight I/D ?
« Reply #3 on: August 05, 2015, 07:58:27 PM »
Hi Malcolm,

Yes, I also remember these flower pots to have been attributed to the Ysart family. However, I cannot remember the details. I am fairly sure that there was an item in the PCC newsletter about these but I am away from home so I cannot check it.

KevinH will give us the relevant information though.

Nice find.

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Re: flowered paperweight I/D ?
« Reply #4 on: August 05, 2015, 08:11:01 PM »
Hi Malcolm,

Just been checking my library of paperweight books, it was an article in the 2013 PCA bulletin pages 88  - 91 by John Simmonds and yes yours is identical and very rare.

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Re: flowered paperweight I/D ?
« Reply #5 on: August 05, 2015, 08:38:06 PM »
Hi Nick, double wow.

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Re: flowered paperweight I/D ?
« Reply #6 on: August 05, 2015, 11:09:49 PM »
I know of three articles about these "frit flower in pot" weights:

- Paperweight Collectors Circle Newsletter 88, August 2005
Part of an article by Terry Johnson on three Ysart items. Two of these "frit flower" weights were discussed and illustrated.

- Paperweight Collectors Circle Newsletter 112, August 2013
Article by John Simmonds, illustrating one example of these type of weights. The article was a "shortened version" of the author's full article for the 2013 PCA Bulletin (referred to by Nick above)

- Annual Bulletin of the Paperweight Collectors Association Inc., 2013
Article by John Simmonds. This article illustrated ten of these weights, all of very similar shape and design.

During discussions among collectors following Terry Johnson's acquisition of two examples, I added information that I recalled a photograph of Salvador Ysart shown at a meeting of the Northern Paperweight Society. The photo included a "frit flower" weight of the same type and style.

In addition to the evidence of the shape, design, main glass colour (tint) and UV results, the colours of the frit in the known examples tie up very well to those used in Monart wares.
KevinH

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