Topic: Victorian pressed glass basket salt? help please

[brucebanner]

Any thought's on this one, it's very crudely made in a very sharp two part mould with distortion to the glass. Glows slightly green under UV light and has several white seeds and other bits within the glass, i'm guessing it's a small posy or salt?.

No marking.

4 3/4 inches in length, 2 1/4 inches in depth and roughly 3 1/4 inches in height.

Any thought's regards Chris.

[mhgcgolfclub]

Hi Chris

I am pretty sure its Sowerby. I have had them in slag glass and they were marked. I have one next to me now in amber glass which is also not marked.
Fred will most likely add all the details later.

regards Roy

[brucebanner]

Thanks Roy what date are they?.

[agincourt17]

This is not a design that I recognise as being from Sowerby (but I open to persuasion of its Sowerby origins with appropriate evidence). .

It does have some similarities to the Sowerby pattern no. 1267 basket (shown on page 5 of their pattern book IX of 1882), which is from their RD 316491 of 20 November 1877 – Parcel 4. The vertical ribbing on the Sowerby basket sides is, however, completely plain, the base is also decorated with parallel ribs, and so is the handle.

I have seen them in vitro-porcelain and malachite glass (see the photos), always with the Sowerby peacock trademark and the registry date lozenge, but never in clear or transparent coloured glass.

Fred.