Topic: Unknown cased bowl.

[chopin-liszt]

I believe Adam trained with Anthony Stern. I might be wrong!

[flying free]

mm,that reminds me of Alum Bay glass as well.
Must just be on my mind tonight but still worth looking at I think?  Sue, what do you think?

m

[chopin-liszt]

Yes. It is very Alum Bay-ish too. Well spotted/remembered M.

[Ekimp]

Thanks for the suggestions. I’ve been looking at Alum Bay but not managed to find anything too similar. It doesn’t help that I can only see small thumbnail images on their own shop website. Hopefully something positive will turn up. 

[flying free]

Sorry, on second thoughts I don't think it's Alum Bay. The colours are too pretty on yours, iirc Alum Bay tends to have less of the range of colours and is more browns oriented, and the base isn't quite the right shape.

[Ekimp]

Ok thanks, no worries. It is pretty (not my favourite adjective) but not sickly so The human eye is an impressive bit of kit and does things my iPad camera can’t - it looks better in the flesh with not so much contrast between the darker top and lighter bottom.

[Ekimp]

I think what I called white might actually be opaline type glass. I have this sat on a north facing window sill and it seems to glow even when backlit by the relatively dim indirect light. I haven’t had any opaline before so might be wrong.

(I did attempt to read the threads on what is or isn’t opaline glass but kept drifting off, there didn’t seem much agreement so have described it as opaline ‘type’ glass).

[chopin-liszt]

Do you mean opalescent?
Opaline is white and opaque.
Opalescent is bluey-whiteish, semi-opaque and has an internal "fire" when the light comes through it.

If this contains Opalescent glass, it could be Selkirk. I have discovered recently that Selkirk used opalescent glass in vases. 

[flying free]

Sue, the thing with Selkirk is the snapped pontil mark right and also I think of their swirly splashy colour  stuff as having pelaton strips in it.

I wonder if it's more a Studio glassmaker piece?  There are/were a lot around with 'landscape' themes and this looks quite like a landscape if you see what I mean?

m

[chopin-liszt]

I haven't seen too many Selkirk vases, their output was mostly weights. Christine has a pink and opalescent Selkirk vase, I can't remember what the base was like, the little cylinder I have here has a large round polished pontil mark.
I'm only just at the beginnings of noticing Selkirk using opalescent glass in some of their Studio vases.
I've seen all of two.
This is Christine's. I suspect it does not have a broken pontil mark, as it is properly marked on the base.
http://lustrousstone.co.uk/cpg/displayimage.php?pid=2765
http://lustrousstone.co.uk/cpg/displayimage.php?pid=2766