Topic: Blue milk glass toothpick holder

[SNJ]

Anyone recognise the maker, please?

2½" tall, hobnail lower half, scrolls against a stippled ground top half and even a moulded pattern on the underside which seems a little unnecessary!

[Paul S.]

not that I'd know the difference between authentic and copies, but can we be sure this one isn't an Avon production  -  they are known to have copied some Victorian milk glass patterns?

[SNJ]

Good point and not one that I'd considered. Thanks, Paul.

[mhgcgolfclub]

Looks very similar to Portieux Vallerysthal , milk glass or blue opaline.

Roy

[SNJ]

That's a possible attribution that I definitely prefer!

[Paul S.]

 

[flying free]

Possibly  made in Gateshead Tyne and Wear according to the British Museum, about 1880:-  Bequeathed by Barbara Morris

http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=3366566&partId=1&images=true&object=22419&material=18616&page=1

http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details/collection_image_gallery.aspx?assetId=999659001&objectId=3366566&partId=1

[Paul S.]

well done m    - I wonder why the B.M., and not the V. & A.?              I notice these museums making much use of question marks linked to their provenance/attributions                 Forgive my ignorance, but were Sowerby the only pressed maker in the Tyneside area?   

[flying free]

Yes ... the question marks ... it's a good thing though. 

I know absolutely nothing about pressed glass Paul, nothing. So I've no idea who was up there I'm afraid - ooh maybe Davidson.
So perhaps they don't know which one it came from, or didn't when it was left to them.

m