Topic: Cylinder Bud Vase Signed Edinburgh Glass Works ID Help

[chopin-liszt]

Do you agree is is likely to be Helen Munro Turner's work, Frank?
I did get quite excited at the possibility. I've only seen the three pieces which were in the (no longer there) antique place in the big old church in Dunkeld. I do think this piece is completely consistent with those.
If it is her work, it should really be in a museum. 

[Frank]

Sadly, no idea. Never handled any of her work 

[chopin-liszt]

Is there anybody else who might have a clue?
We are rather down a very small rabbit-hole here.

[Roobarb]

Just a quick update... I got in touch with National Museums Scotland and they thought this vase wasn't a HMT piece. The two reasons they stated were;

Firstly, even though she had a studio at Jupiter Green and set up a glass department at ECA, they were never under the moniker of Edinburgh Glassworks.

Secondly, an independent expert on her work was consulted and it was agreed the piece was not hers, and that the engraved words don't have her 'finesse'. 

[chopin-liszt]

  Thanks very much for reporting back, Roobarb. It would have been Juniper Green though, not Jupiter.
I have seen a fair bit of the glass they have in Edinburgh. If it's the Museum in Chamber Street, which I think is the name of the one you mention, (it's called Chamber Street Museum by everybody who lives there) there is a fair bit of non-monart Monart there...
And engraving can be difficult to accomplish with finesse, especially if not well-practised.

But the studio never being Edinburgh Glassworks knocks HMT on the head.

[Roobarb]

If they're wrong about that - maybe they're wrong about the vase 

[chopin-liszt]

The more opinions the better.
But this is a really hard one to find folk with opinions on.

I did edit my last reply and say more.

[Roobarb]

Thanks chopin-liszt Well I'll let this one live in my kitchen for now - can't part with ones with so much mystery around them!

They did say this it was likely an end of day piece...but that doesn't really get very me far.
 

[chopin-liszt]

An "end of day" piece is a complete myth. There is no such thing.
it came about because somebody erroneously thought glass kilns got turned off at night and warmed up again the next day, so they "had to use up what was left at the end of the day".
The kilns are not turned off and on again. It would take far too long for them to cool, then far too long to reheat. They are left on.

[Roobarb]

I had heard that before about end of day glass! But when I tried to research it, lots of websites seemed to say it was a thing. Thanks for confirming it's not...