mm, jugs are quite difficult but I don't think that shape is at all similar
The eye sees things so differently doesn't it though?
You know, I'm often wrong on these things probably because instinct is not always a good thing
but in my defence sometimes it's just a good place to start searching.
Sometimes it just comes down to looking at something and thinking there's something Bohemian about the cutting, the style, the colour etc. Or there is a design that just isn't Bohemian somehow. So as an example the jugs on page 56 of that CH book. In the drawings they are Richardson's, panel cut, green coloured in the actual drawings, and yes the right hand one does have a panel cut jutting out collar as does my pink jug. However, overall there's something not Bohemian about it if you see what I mean. And then when you look at the picture of the decanter on page 53 that is the decanter version of the green jug on the left on page 56. In real life it doesn't look Bohemian to me at all.
There is more of a problem with the items on page 57 of that book that explain this predicament quite well:
- The amethyst scent bottle is gorgeous - I wouldn't have known that was English but equally would have been wondering about Bohemian not being quite right. I might have thought it was French but the colour and cutting put me off, Bohemian maybe but the colour put me off. So I might have considered English perhaps eventually but more likely might have though Russian first because of the colour and the design and then the cutting (but the fact that Russian glass is rare and the stopper might not be Russian in style would put me off).
- The amber scent bottle I would have put as Bohemian but wondered why it was so clunky and wondered about the horizontal line cutting around the rim of the cornucopia. CH has it as probably French. That might explain the clunkiness (French style of that period appears to me to have a certain clunkiness about it) but I would never have put the foot as French so still might query that as French. That foot is Bohemian to me. So is the colour. The stopper is something that was used in Bohemian glass as well.
- And then there's uranium yellow cut glass bowl ... I've noted he does not say where he thinks that was made. I'm in many minds about that bowl
I love that bowl but cannot place it except to say the foot looks Bohemian to me but difficult to tell.
Conversely, my jug is pink cased in clear (probably not English then in my mind - but thinking Buquoy'sche glas as they were renowned for their development of amazing colours ); it's panel cut in a particular style all over that immediately says Bohemian Biedermeier period to me but could be later; has a foot cut in a particular way that is seen on many many bechers of that period (Bohemian), and has a large polished pontil mark (thinking Annathal bei Schuttenhofen - Bohemian). So at the end of the day there isn't anything about my jug that would make me look at English makers ... but I could be wrong!
Just my opinion but the problem is I think, that these coloured glass items were 'fashionable' all over Europe during this period. Fashionable being 'desirable' by buyers. They'd gone off clear glass of the 'death by a thousand cuts' style (see page 43 of that book for some lovely examples) although the critics were still pushing the clarity of the lovely English glass etc. v the Bohemian clear glass not judged to be as good quality.
English glassmakers had a problem with tax issues which constrained how well they could compete in making coloured glass etc.
The Bohemian's took the opportunity to make enormous developments in coloured glass and cutting styles to show the best of those colour and technique developments and exported tons of it. Many tons of it. Hence there are so many good examples around still.
French glassmakers were making the most beautiful coloured glass from early in the 1800s as well. I have one piece that is amazing. Check out also 'gorge de pigeon' glass. It was truly the most beautiful opaline. But that said, my heart belong to the Bohemian glass of this period. The colours, the cutting techniques, the engraving, the enamelling. All on one becher. Incredible stuff and beautiful designs. Breaking new ground.
I do think English glassmakers were developing coloured glass techniques and ideas but for whatever reason the first half of the 1800s belong to Biedermeier glass.
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