Topic: Derbyshire Lions or something else?

[Bernard C]

TC et al — I'm glad this topic was resurrected as I found a reference to an identical lion in amber cloud glass on Chris & Val Stewart's web site here.

These lions are popularly attributed to Greener and also popularly attributed to the late C19, although I have never found any evidence to support either of these two claims.   Davidson acquired moulds from several glassworks besides Jobling/Greener.   I am not at all happy with the Greener attribution as the finish is generally not of their high standard.   I believe that you don't get a team of glassmakers dropping their standards of quality for just one product.   Or do you?

Bernard C. 

[nicola]

Hi Bernard
I was interested with your comment about Greener and their standards - I always understood that their standards were slightly lower than Sowerby and Davidson. In my own collection, any items that have little fins of glass left on them, are leaning to one side, sunken or just generally wonky, it usually has a Greener mark on them!  Have I been doing a disservice to Greener all this time?
Thanks
Nicola

[Ekimp]

I know next to nothing about pressed glass but looking for something else, noticed a Saint-Louis Lion that has a similar looking base. Not sure the lion is quite the same but might be of interest.

From catalogue made available for down load by the Corning Museum. Page 120 of Catalogue, page 93 of download: https://www.cmog.org/library/moulures?search=library_collection%3A08a52ae67c8aab54f1173864adcb6f1f&page=231