Topic: Uranium Candlestick - ID = Sowerby 689 pattern

[NevB]

This 9" uranium candlestick is in a dark mint/fern green colour. I had a search and can't yet identify an English maker, I found a couple online in the same pattern, but unidentified, which were in America so it's possible it's American.

[flying free]

French?  That raised oval design always reminds me of the Saint Louis/Baccarat pressed glass designs.  Have you checked the Launay Hautin catalogues?

[NevB]

Thanks flying free, I've looked at the Launay Hautin and Baccarat catalogues and there are some with a similar ovals decoration but nothing exactly the same. I'll keep looking.

[NevB]

From Book V P.15 on Mike Tomlins website the No.689 9" candlestick. See Mike's post under British glass.

http://www.victorianpressedglass.com/pdf/sowerby/sowerby_1874.pdf

[flying free]

Great find.  Thanks for the links.  Those patterns in the books are so architecturally pleasing in the way they've been drawn

'Sketched and Lithographed by MACLURE and MACDONALD. Lithographers to the Queen'

A little strange to see 'Opium Lamp' on page 33   

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[NevB]

I want one of those, I wonder if they made one in Uranium