Topic: Sowerby pattern 1852 opalescent uranium glass swan.

[nick.a]

Thanks for that Fred. I've asked the V&A for more details on their attribution, and just found their swan's dimensions - Height: 10.7 cm, Width: 15.5 cm maximum, Depth: 8.2 cm, which I think, put it in the larger category (1852)?
Kind regards
Nick

[vonann]

"The most reliable indicator for the Burtles, Tate & Co. swan attributions (irrespective of the size) is the RD number 20086 (registered 8 January 1885) that they usually bear."

Thank you Fred for your helpful info, do you know how long after the 1885 date the Burtles, Tate & Co Swans were made?

[agincourt17]

Welcome to the GMB vonann.

Unfortuately, I've no idea how long after their registration date that the Burtles, Tate & Co. swans would have been made, but the firm was still registering designs as late as 1914, and appear to have been still making glass items into the early 1920s.

Fred.

[Paul S.]

regret I know less than nothing about swans, but can anyone say why the V. & A. should describe their clear glass example as 'press moulded opaline glass'  -  I wasn't aware there was such a thing as clear opaline.

[vonann]

Thanks Fred, that gives me a date range, first piece from that company, was a lucky find.

[thewingedsphinx]

I come across this thread so thought I’d ad these as i believe they are the Sowerby Swans (small and unmarked) dad also has a clear one. Regards Mike

These Opalescent green ones do not glow.

[flying free]

there is a good line drawing of the swan here. Yours look the same as this line drawing I think:
https://www.carnivalglassworldwide.com/swanning-around.html

https://www.carnivalglassworldwide.com/uploads/3/7/0/9/37096651/2859753.jpg?292

[thewingedsphinx]

Thanks I’ve not seen that page before, the Sowerby 1885 catalogue shows only some items were marked with a lozenge or peacock so it’s not unusual for pieces from this period onwards not to be marked.
Mike

[MHT]

Mike, your small swans are in the 1892 catalogue page 38, pattern number 1852.5 
http://www.victorianpressedglass.com/pdf/sowerby/sowerby_1892.pdf
Looks like they made a smaller version of pattern number 1852, as you say not unusual for them not to be marked at this date.
I have a few marked pieces in the same green stained, opalescent, Blanc de Lait glass.

[thewingedsphinx]

Mike,
Thanks our frosted one is also unmarked, cheers Mike