Topic: Powell opalescent blue vase !!??

[Lustrousstone]

Opalescent glass contains arsenic and/or fluorides and is selectively and carefully reheated to produce the opalescence

[Ekimp]

I would question the handle of your jug, it says not to me, squared off like that feels like the wrong style and it looks like clear glass unlike the body. The shape of the jug does not fit to my eye either. Is that a bit of iridescence around the neck too?

There is a jug on page 98 of Jackson’s Whitefriars Glass that looks to be the same shape, maybe very slightly different but it’s hard to tell. The handle is the same shape except maybe more fine and with no tail at the top running down the body. That one is just dark green, before 1878, pattern no. 1388.

[bat20]

Thanks for the input Ekimp ,I thought I better keep quiet until I ordered the cheapest version of that book ,it arrived today so I could could study it in a bit more detail .  It encouraged me me to take a few more images under different light conditions and I think it is still a possible for Powell blue opal ?

[bat20]

And a couple more today with natural daylight .