Topic: White pressed glass vase - commemorative ware?

[marie anne]

Please can anyone help identify this vase? It's 5.25 inches high.  I'm wondering if it's Sowerby as I've seen examples on the web in green and turquoise malachite.  It's not in the great CD resource "Sowerby's Ellison Glass Works: Volume 1 - From Victoria to George V" by Glen and Stephen Thistlewood.  My working theory is that it's a commemorative piece, possibly Queen Victoria's Golden or Diamond Jubilee, because it has a band of George Cross symbols lower down, and a middle band of possibly inverted thistles.  If it is a commemorative piece then it's unlikely to be in the catalogues.  Of course it may be another manufacturer entirely. 

[NevB]

You might try searching the Glass Queries Gallery website which is allied to GMB, it has lots of images of Sowerby glass and also Davidson glass which your piece might be.

[Anne]

Link to GlassGallery https://www.yobunny.org.uk/glassgallery/

[marie anne]

Thank you for the glass gallery tip and link.  I searched through the Davidson and Sowerby pages to no avail.  I've also looked on the excellent pressglas-pavillon.de/index2.html website.

The books I've searched through looking for it are;
English Pressed Glass by Raymond Slack,
English 19th-Century Press-Moulded Glass by Colin Lattimore,
Victorian Table Glass and Ornaments by Barbara Morris,
Decorative Victorian Glass by Cyril Manley,
Davidson Glass a history by Chris and Val Stewart,
Sowerby Gateshead Glass by Simon Cottle,
The pressed glass chapter of British Glass 1800-1914 by Charles Hajdamach,
and the CD's of Sowerby Glass by Glen & Stephen Thistlewood,
and the Thistlewoods Carnival Glass book just in case the mould had also been used for carnival glass.

It's becoming an obsession!! 

I have ordered The Identification of English Pressed Glass by Jenny Thompson,and am also waiting delivery of The Peacock and the Lions by Sheilagh Murray which I should have bought years ago.

If anyone has any other book suggestions for my search I'd be grateful.  It's possible that I've actually missed the vase I'm looking for in all the hundreds of page turnings.

Or an identification so I can get my life back....   

[NevB]

It might be an American piece, Westmoreland made pieces with the scalloped base, or Fenton etc. The crosses might be a form of Maltese cross.

[marie anne]

I'll try that avenue and see where it leads.  I drew a blank with The Identification of English Pressed Glass and The Peacock and the Lions.  I did look through 'Milk Glass' by Betty and Bill Newbound and didn't find it in their vase section, but I'll look further into American glass.  And try searching for Maltese cross motifs.  Thank you!

[NevB]

Also you might try looking under "spill vase".

[NevB]

You might also try posting on the Collectors Weekly forum. They have some American and Milk glass experts who've just identified something for me. Regards NevB.