Topic: Who made me !? - ID = Sowerby

[chopin-liszt]

  I had thought Caithness too, from the colour AND the foot. I wasn't so sure about the rim, so stayed quiet.

[bat20]

Did Caithness have a similar peacock stamp ,the peacock is the correct way round when looking into the bowl , but it’s tricky to get a photo !..it’s made by some sort of industrial process .

[Lustrousstone]

A Sowerby peacock should be on the inside and right way round. How was the bowl made?

[Mosquito]

Interesting to see Sowerby returning to use their peacock mark in the sixties/ seventies (I seem to recall Sowerby closed in 1972). There is some precedent for northeast manufacturers reintroducing stamped marks around this time as Davidson also added their moulded lion trademark to their marble glass reissue of Jobling's 2598 ashtray when they produced it in marble glass in the mid sixties.

[chopin-liszt]

Caithness never had any stamped mark. I was, and I suspect Flying-free was too, just looking at the whole piece. I couldn't make out the mark, and that made me decide agaisnt saying anything too.
The whole bowl itself is very similar to 70's Caithness. Which was based on the popular scandi designs of the time.

[bat20]

I suspect Scandinavian glass was the in thing at that period and everyone else must have been trying to play catch up to stay in the market ?

[chopin-liszt]

Domhnall O'Brion did, at Caithness. I don't know if any others did.
The "market" in general was much, much smaller then than now.

[bat20]

I think a lot of designers /artists were reacting to modernism at the time .

[NevB]

If it was Sowerby it would be late 1960's-70's, looking at other pieces online from that period some have labels but none has an impressed mark. I don't think it's a Sowerby mark but I'm sure I've seen it somewhere else but I can't place where.

[Lustrousstone]

I think we need to know if it's pressed or blown before we speculate further; I can't tell from the photo. It may not even be a mark.