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Title: Copy of Spiderweb Sundae dish - any clues?
Post by: David E on March 16, 2007, 09:17:08 AM
I recently came across a Sundae dish that bore an uncanny resemlence to Chance's Spiderweb model, but cannot identify this clear one. The standard of moulding is higher on the Chance one, but I don't have a clear model to compare it properly, so you'll have to take my word that they are very similar! 8)
Very similar size and appearance, but the clear one is a 3-part mould and the pattern is created on the inside and outside of bowl, whereas Spiderweb is entirely on the outside. The pattern for the foot is on the top surface (S/web, which is also thicker) but on the underside of the copy.
The stems are most noticeable where it joins the bowl. It can also be noticed that where the 'top ring' of the mould [of the copy] truncates the pattern towards the top edge of the bowl and leaves an untidy ridge.
Edit: Sundae is the correct term for this dish
Title: Re: Copy of Spiderweb Grapefruit dish - any clues?
Post by: Heidimin on March 16, 2007, 09:45:27 AM
Hi, David.
I've had a quick look through my Sherdley pics (including the cheap and cheerful stuff they marketed through Woolworths and the designs they submitted to the Britain Can Make It exhibition in 1946), but can't find anything similar. Not that that's a definitive elimination by any means.
What's the date on the Chance pattern?
Title: Re: Copy of Spiderweb Grapefruit dish - any clues?
Post by: David E on March 16, 2007, 09:54:56 AM
Thanks Heidi.
Spiderweb was originally designed and introduced in 1934, but these coloured banded models were produced from 1950.
Title: Re: Copy of Spiderweb Grapefruit dish - any clues?
Post by: glassaddict on April 04, 2007, 10:35:49 PM
Hi David,
I have been wracking my brains over your unknown dish as my initial thought was that it was a mass produced design, supplied to the catering and hotel trade as ice cream dishes.
Just my opinion and I have been looking at suppliers on the net, but to no avail. Not much help in pinning it down but I'll keep looking. :)
Hil
Title: Re: Copy of Spiderweb Grapefruit dish - any clues?
Post by: David E on April 05, 2007, 08:34:56 AM
Thanks Hil.
Being mass-produced the quality of the copy is not very high, and I could easily see it being used in the catering industry.
This suggests a maker like Dema, Ravenhead (UK) or Arcoroc, Durobar, Durand in France/Belgium.
Title: Re: Copy of Spiderweb Sundae dish - any clues?
Post by: Chris Harrison on March 16, 2011, 12:47:29 PM
Title: Re: Copy of Spiderweb Sundae dish - any clues?
Post by: Anne on March 22, 2011, 02:13:10 PM
There's an amazing number of patterns we've seen which we've now found are Century, thanks to Thomas Joyce's searching through the Pottery Gazette's for their adverts. The page on Thomas' website Chris linked to above is very useful, and it has answered at least one of my trinket set queries already. :hiclp: :hiclp: :hiclp:
Title: Re: Copy of Spiderweb Sundae dish - any clues?
Post by: Chris Harrison on March 22, 2011, 03:11:54 PM
Solved a good number of my puzzles, too. In particular that hand-blown water set has been annoying me for years - WF? Webb? Stourbridge? Stuart? No, Century!
There must be a piece of that 484 trinket set in every charity shop that I visit...