Topic: Sowerby basket.

[Paul S.]

    sure, provided it is their opalescent type of glass.        In some ways Blanc-de-Lait has some resemblance to Lalique and Jobling's Opalique  -  the opalescence (opaqueness) becomes more noticeable in the thicker parts of the glass.      If you can beg, steal or borrow a copy of Ray Slack's book on C19 pressed glass there are some examples showing there and some text where he describes in more detail extracts from the Pottery Gazette etc.  -  well worth the money if you collect Victorian pressed glass.

[essi]

I don't have the Ray Slack book but do have the Sowerby Gateshead glass, Simon Cottle.
The bowls we are discussing appear on the top left hand side of page 110 of the 1882 pattern book.
Two examples of the bowls are shown. the first bowl has the number 1350 as per Agincourt's post.
The second bowl has the number 1350 and a half.
These two bowls have different handle orientation and only pattern 1350 and a half can be hot worked to produce
the shape of mine and Greg's basket.
Pressed glass is not my area of collecting but i always look at the post's in British and Irish glass.
Tim