Topic: End of day jug?

[thewingedsphinx]

My 2nd unknown treasure today from motherinlaws cupboard. This reminds me of an “end of day” kind of piece. Around 8 inches to the top of the handle. It also has a stamp at the base of the handle of a face, which I think is unusual. Has anyone any ideas to the age or manufacturer or of anything similar.its also extremely light in weight. Thanks Mike

[Mosquito]

The gold leaf and prunt at the base of the handle look very Venetian to me. It could be Salviati, though Sowerby are also said to have made similar pieces c. 1870.

[chopin-liszt]

Agreed, it really looks like something of quality.
Dear Winged Sphinx, I hope you don't mind me butting in about this, but the phrase "end of day" is now known to be a complete falsehood.
Makers did not rush around at the end of the day working like mad just to use up all the glass that had been melted that day.
The ovens were kept on all the time, not allowed to cool down overnight, then brought up to temperature again the next day.
They'd never get any work done if they did that. It would take too long.

The expression came into being from dealers who assumed that was what happened and then they applied it to things such as spatter glass, which is a decor in its own right and friggers, which were really more to allow makers to practise something and experiment a little, to hone their skills and to create things for apprentice shows and marches.
There really isn't anything that can be described as "end of day glass". It simply doesn't exist.

[glassobsessed]

I would go with Salviati, there is a 'matching' fume goblet with lattimo canes on page 149 Venetian Glass of the 1890s: Salviati at Stanford university.

John

[thewingedsphinx]

Thanks again John, I shall investigate your Stanford university reference, I've now seen quite a few similar Venetian glass ewers. Pointing in the right direction helps. Do you know if the page from the Stanford university book is online any where?
Can anyone advise what the face mask print stands for. Is it an individual maker or company mark.Thanks all for your comments.Mike

[glassobsessed]

The face is decoration, many of the themes were traditional and hark back to ancient Greece via Rome. Doubt you will find that page online, it is copyright.  I can send you a photo of it along with another example from that book. There is also a group of five items all fume with lattimo canes in Exquisite Glass Ornaments edited by Rosa Barovier Mentasti.

Click on the email icon under my name and send me an email, I can then reply to it and attach a few photos.

[rocco]

I have this piece with similarly shaped prunts: http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,53519.0.html

Michael