Topic: Help ID 2 Opalescent Glass Ribbed Small Vases

[mhgcgolfclub]

Help please to ID these 2 opalescent ribbed glass small vases. One has been made into a trefoil shape while the second a quatrefoil.

Unsure of age but guessing late Victorian pressed glass. No makers marks.

About 2" in height and both weigh just over 90gm.
Flat smooth base.

The only thing they remind me of is Sowerby for some reason.

Thanks Roy

[Paul S.]

Roy  -  I'd suggest it reminds you of Sowerby because they made opalescent press moulded glass very much like this pair, in a variety of shapes, c. 1880s  -  do you have the 1986 Tyne & Wear Museums publication edited by Simon Cottle - page 60 - though these two don't match up with any of the pieces shown in the book picture.
As you know, small posy-type containers with multiple vertical crimped rims, like yours, were common shapes in the second half of the C19 no doubt by many makers, but Sowerby is the name that mostly comes to mind, though most of these posy type containers were in some sort of opaque Vitro Porcelain sort of appearance.
Have you tried Mervyn Gulliver?

Sorry - absolutely no idea as to who might have made these two.           Do you sense they might have the sort of age that qualifies for Victorian?

[mhgcgolfclub]

Thanks Paul for your reply.

I do not have the Tyne and Wear publication. I agree Sowerby comes to mind ,but with no record of these shapes and no trade mark most likely made by someone else.

I do sense they are late Victorian rather than later pieces.

Thanks again Roy

[SveziaJonas]

Hello,
Look at Arthur Percy Reffla Gullaskruf.

Jonas

[mhgcgolfclub]

Hello Jonas

Thanks for your reply and ID.
So date from 1950's/70's. They do look very similar to Sowerby pieces although the bases did not quite look right so many thanks for correcting me.

Thanks Roy