Topic: Is this a Monart bowl?

[nick.a]

Sue, M and Kevin, thank you all for the information, it's much appreciated.
Best regards
Nick

[chopin-liszt]

Yes. Thanks Kev, for getting us right.

[orangeglass]

I have seen this colour called many names, it is actually  a colourway made by :
"Monart Glass
forming part of City of Perth’s gift to
H.R.H. Princess Elizabeth & The Duke of Edinburgh
on the occasion of their wedding
on 20th November 1947"
"https://www.ysartglass.com/Ysart/Wedding.htm

Its very pale blue in clear with gold adventurine around the rim.....not my favourite colourway.......hope this sets the record straight! not sure why it's labelled as silver wedding on that piece!

[orangeglass]

see also this:
"1947 - Paul restarted limited Monart production.    
One of first productions was 33-piece set as wedding gift for Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip of Greece. Set made in new colour scheme of pale blue, clear edge with gold flecks, subsequently known as‘ wedding gift’ scheme. "
https://www.ysartglass.com/Ysart/Calendar.htm

and:
" Post war Monart. In the meantime, at Moncrieff’s, Paul Ysart resumed production of Monart in late 1946, with the making of one of the City of Perth’s wedding gifts to the Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh. He could not do so on his own of course, and he recruited a man named Johnny Jones from Edinburgh and Leith Flint Glass Works. The glass industry is fairly parochial and Paul had kept in touch with workers in Edinburgh, and in fact bought lampwork snakes and dragonflies from a glassmaker there for his paperweights. Johnny Jones remembers well travelling up from Edinburgh, and staying at Paul Ysart’s house in Perth overnight, while he looked over the job. “The bath was full of paperweights”, he recalls “and the house was awash with beautiful vases and decorative glassware.”

Around six or seven sets of the ‘Wedding Gift’ tableware were made, and the best pieces were selected to make up a set for presentation to the Royal Household."
https://www.ysartglass.com/Ysart/DominicP.htm

Sorry to bore you all with the finer details.......

[chopin-liszt]

It's fascinating to learn that the lampwork butterflies and so on were not made by Paul, but bought in.
I did know about the bath full of weights and all the work he had kept hidden away to himself.