No-one likes general adverts, and ours hadn't been updated for ages, so we're having a clear-out and a change round to make the new ones useful to you. These new adverts bring in a small amount to help pay for the board and keep it free for you to use, so please do use them whenever you can, Let our links help you find great books on glass or a new piece for your collection. Thank you for supporting the Board.

Author Topic: Thomas Webb Bronze Range Vase ?  (Read 1567 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline chopin-liszt

  • Members
  • **
  • Posts: 14462
    • Scotland, Europe.
Re: Thomas Webb Bronze Range Vase ?
« Reply #10 on: May 25, 2019, 11:22:15 AM »
Sorry - I wasn't trying to being rude with my "kitchen grime", but it's really hard to tell what something truly looks like from a photograph.  ;D
If you already know what the reality is, you can see it in the image, but if you don't, you can interpret things wrongly.
We are looking at something that is three dimensional, in a 2D image.

Bright sunshine might well have done something to make the surface appear shinier.
I am pleased to hear the lustre doesn't wash off. 8)
Cheers, Sue M. (she/her)

‘For every problem there is a solution: neat, plausible and wrong’. H.L.Mencken

Support the Glass Message Board by finding a book via book-seek.com


Offline flying free

  • Members
  • **
  • Posts: 12693
    • UK
Re: Thomas Webb Bronze Range Vase ?
« Reply #11 on: July 22, 2021, 07:54:38 PM »
See page 169 on this link.
https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Pottery_Glass_Trades_Journal/hyUGAAAAQAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=davenport+glass-works+Longport&pg=PA88&printsec=frontcover

The Pottery & Glass Trades' Journal 1878

J. T. H. Richardson Glass Works advertisement at the top of the page says they were the:
 'Sole Licensee for the manufacture of Webb's Patent Bronze Glass'
Modify message

Support the Glass Message Board by finding glass through glass-seek.com


Offline AdrianW

  • Members
  • **
  • Posts: 60
    • Art deco
    • England
Re: Thomas Webb Bronze Range Vase ?
« Reply #12 on: July 27, 2021, 07:31:23 AM »
How well polished is the pontil? Is it as smooth as a normal glass, or does it have a slightly "ground" finish? The reason I ask is that it looks somewhat like it has a ground finish in your photo? All my Loetz pieces have highly smooth pontils. If the pontil isn't perfectly smooth I'd say not Loetz.

I'm also leaning away from Kralik, on the basis that the base doesn't seem right? That said, the decor reminds me of Purple Glatt:
http://kralik-glass.com/kralikpurpleglattarray.html

What colour is it when you shine light through the glass?

Support the Glass Message Board by finding a book via book-seek.com


 

SMF spam blocked by CleanTalk
Visit the Glass Encyclopedia
link to glass encyclopedia
Visit the Online Glass Museum
link to glass museum


This website is provided by Angela Bowey, PO Box 113, Paihia 0247, New Zealand