Topic: Pressed glass vase

[Paul S.]

Having dug around some more, have to admit I was surprised to see the similarity of design between the dark blue vase in m's link together with m's suggestion that this might possibly be a Sowerby design  -  and a very similar shaped vase on Pamela's 'pressglas-pavillon site which has a positive Sowerby provenance  ............  was it this similarity m, between your piece and the Sowerby vase that made you think of Sowerby for yours?   Have to say I'd have put money on the dark blue example being eastern European rather than British.       See this link for the example on Pamela Wessendorf's museum    https://www.pressglas-pavillon.de/vasen/02004.html .               There were many glass designs produced during the interwar years that were understandably influenced by art deco  -  with fins, angular and stepped layers  etc. in what we'd call the art deco style.

[flying free]

Hmm Paul.  I've always 'known' my vase was Sowerby but it's been so long that I like to be a bit circumspect just in case
However, comparing it to the one on Pamela's site the fins appear to start further down the body of the vase whereas those on her vase start at the rim.

So whilst I was 'sure' but trying to appear not just in case, it might in fact be that either mine or hers isn't Sowerby. 
I was happy with mine being Sowerby because I think they produced that blue in a boat shaped bowl so I felt ok with whatever research evidence I found at the time.
Not so sure now 

[Paul S.]

Well, I'd have put my shirt on your blue example being eastern Europe, but now having seen the vase on Pamela's site I'm very much unsure, and in view of the similarity between the two, then perhaps yours too does stand a chance of being Sowerby - who knows.             I could be wrong, but imagine that Pamela Wessendorf has taken Roger Dodsworth's attribution as gospel, and suspect most of us would follow suite  -  the provenance he quotes seems unassailable.       Perhaps the greater mystery might be that, despite the overall general similarity of design, it appears odd that there are small differences, and two similar but slightly different designs seems odd if they were coming from the same source.     We might never crack this one.