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Author Topic: Jeannette Floral Vase Uranium  (Read 3155 times)

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Offline NevB

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Jeannette Floral Vase Uranium
« on: March 20, 2021, 12:16:07 PM »
Jeannette "Floral" 7" vase aka "Poinsettia" ( a misnomer). Made 1931-35.
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Re: Jeannette Floral Vase Uranium
« Reply #1 on: March 20, 2021, 01:29:28 PM »
A vase! How unusual. Well done Nev, you must be very pleased. :)
It's normally only saucers and grapefruit dishes you ever manage to find. ;D
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Re: Jeannette Floral Vase Uranium
« Reply #2 on: March 20, 2021, 06:03:07 PM »
Thanks Sue, it was hiding on Ebay with another vase and I thought it was a Walther one until I took closer look  ;D. I've added a photo of my other pieces.
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Re: Jeannette Floral Vase Uranium
« Reply #3 on: March 20, 2021, 06:27:23 PM »
You have a very unusual shape of jug too. It's funny the things you do and don't find in this particular glass. It's actually a clematis, isn't it?
I do have some but can't get to it right now. It's grapefruit dishes and saucers.  ;D
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Re: Jeannette Floral Vase Uranium
« Reply #4 on: March 20, 2021, 08:02:44 PM »
Yes Sue the jug's quite scarce too. I researched the pattern and it seems to be a composite of clematis, virginia creeper and perhaps passion flower!
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Re: Jeannette Floral Vase Uranium
« Reply #5 on: March 20, 2021, 08:07:43 PM »
I can't check it right now, but I seem to remember there is a kind of raised cross shape in the middle of the flower, which I have seen in chocolate-scented passion flowers.
But they are the only passion flowers I have seen. ;D
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Re: Jeannette Floral Vase Uranium
« Reply #6 on: March 20, 2021, 08:32:13 PM »
You're right passionflowers have a cross shaped stigma, the pattern just has an unusual single one which I can't find elsewhere.
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Re: Jeannette Floral Vase Uranium
« Reply #7 on: March 21, 2021, 05:30:59 PM »
They are passion flowers, The grapefruit dishes are actually called sherberts. What you really want to find are dresser set bits; they are rare. The tiny 3.5 in footed tumblers seem to have been mostly exported to the UK, as they are rare in the USA. Your pitcher in that size (5.5 in) is also quite scarce so may have been another thing mostly exported.

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Re: Jeannette Floral Vase Uranium
« Reply #8 on: March 21, 2021, 09:33:32 PM »
I think they are supposed to be passion flowers but the designer hasn't reproduced the complicated centre of the flower.
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Re: Jeannette Floral Vase Uranium
« Reply #9 on: March 26, 2024, 03:07:34 PM »
I have my small collection of Jeannette Ponsietta out from where it was hidden, but I'm now having serious doubts about its uranium content. I am starting to strongly suspect it is just a lot of managnese. It does not glow anything close to as brightly as a thorn vase or some beads I have.
There seems to be less yellow in the glow, and the other things glow from a distance (the other side of the dark room) while the Jeannette does not until I am a lot closer. Maybe about 5' ?

Is it just my aging eyes or is it really uranium? Or was this pattern made in plain green as well as U?
Cheers, Sue M. (she/her)

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