Topic: Miniature wavy rim vase - Whitefriars ? ID help please

[Scott13]

Hi,
I thought of WF on the strength of its colour ( which looks like Sea Green to me ) and polished out pontil mark.
Unfortunately I haven't been able to find it in any of their online catalogues - so I'm at a bit of a loss.

It really is quite light and delicate - small but perfectly formed would be an apt description   

I've compared it with a Sowerby Venetian but this one is altogether lighter.

H- 4 cm ( 1.5 in)
W- 6 cm ( 2.5 in)
Weight- 80 gm

Any help really appreciated 

Scott

[keith]

Stuart maybe ?

[Scott13]

Hi Keith,
I tried Stuart but with no success. Nice glass though.
Despite all my searching I keep coming back to WF - principally because of its perfectly polished pontil mark and its colour; which I'm convinced is Sea Green.
I can make a comparison with my recently acquired WF wave ribbed vase ,which is in SG ( my last post ) -  their colours do look similar.
This comeing from someone who isn't good with colours 
Perhaps it's a one off 
Thanks

Scott

[Paul S.]

I'd agree with Keith that this one does have a Stuarty sort of look   ...   see the attached.              My general thoughts are that this little bowl could be from a number of makers  -  frilly rims plus some optic moulding like this have been quite common at times, and as a rather uneducated thought I'd be inclined to think that if it can't be found in the on-line W/Fs catalogues then good chance it wasn't theirs.

[Scott13]

Hi Paul,
Of course one could argue that its colour ( Sea Green ) provides it with an identity............
Unless of course there were other glassmakers at the time using exactly the same colour; and this is something we'll probably never know 

Scott

[nigelbenson]

Hello,

Powell, Richardson, Webb and Stuart (and possibly Walsh Walsh and Webb Corbett) all used versions of dark green. This small bowl/vase is not Sea Green, but rather a dark green. Compare known Sea-Green by Whitefriars/Powell with this and you instantly see the difference.

I believe you will find a similar, wrythen, example by Thomas Webb within an article written by Lesley Jackson in the Glass Association Journal No5, 1997, where she uses a copy of an advert from The Pottery Gazette as an illustration.

Cheers, Nigel

[flying free]

It does kind of have the look of this Webb's Iris in terms of shape doesn't it?
That is also quite fine in terms of heft.
http://www.decorative-antiques.co.uk/displayImage.asp?GID=15816&key=Webb%27s%20IRIS%20Glass%20Vase

Nigel, did Stevens and Williams use a dark green with a greyish hue?
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[nigelbenson]

Hi Michelle,

Yes, I guess you could say a grey tint to the green in 1930's S&W green.

Cheers, Nigel

PS. Good photo link for the shape

[Scott13]

Hi Nigel,
I've attached pics of my posy vase next to my 25.5 cm Whitefriars 'Wave Ribbed' vase  - which incidentally has had its identity confirmed ( my previous post).

Always open minded.
Thanks for the info you provided 

Scott

[Scott13]

Hi, three more pics as we've got some daylight now

Scott