Topic: Sowerby Spill Vase Pattern 1295 ?

[mhgcgolfclub]

Fred

Looks like the same vase as your gallery picture of 1295 , but with a smooth body . Also looks to be the same registration.

This one was a car boot find this morning.

Height 3.75"

Roy

[agincourt17]

Nice find, Roy – not a common pattern.

For permanent reference, here is the Sowerby pattern 1295 vase as it appears on page 5 of their pattern book IX (1882). You will notice that the sides are shown as plain slabs, just like yours, rather than the vertically-ribbed sides of the example in the Glass Queries Gallery Sowerby album.

The pattern is from Sowerby RD 319619, registered on 22 March 1878 - Parcel 8,  the only Sowerby design registered on that date.

Fred.

[Paul S.]

as you'd expect, the original design was for the shape only, and as you can see in the attached drawing, Sowerby's own description says 'vase'  -  no mention of the word spill.
I should know, but can't now recall  -  are there factory drawings that actually use the word spill  -  the assumption that this one was for spills appears to have been a description added later.

If you look in Slack, for example, those pieces he describes as spill vases are generally taller and narrower - which is what you'd expect bearing in mind the length of spills.
I say this remembering childhood Christmases when we used to make a spill holder for Grandfather, and the basic tubular shape was created from the cardboard inner tube from a toilet roll, then covering it with some brightly coloured crepe paper............    I have a feeling we had to buy the spills.

In view of the height of this one, is it more likely to have been some form of posy vase rather than a spill holder?

[agincourt17]

Thank you for showing the design representation, Paul.

Both Thompson and Cottle simply describe the item as a 'vase' - the use was presumably at the behest of the owner.

Fred.

[Paul S.]

ah, so it's entirely Roy's fault

[mhgcgolfclub]

Thanks for correcting me Paul, its nothing new I am use to it at home too 

Roy