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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: Joschua on May 22, 2007, 01:50:50 PM
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Hello community, greetings from Germany.
I could recently buy this piece, which was exhibited and put in a major publication by the national Bavarian Museum in 1984 as a Powell & Sons rose sprinkler.
Knowledge can change in 25 years and even Museums might make mistakes, so what do you think? I am sadly quite a noob when it comes to English glass and am looking for a more up to date identification; all I can tell is that it doesn’t look Bohemian to me. However I have never seen British rose sprinklers and I think it might also be a possibility that it has an overseas origin and could be from American manufacturers of that time... I also heard that Powell worked for Tiffany, I mean this is clearly not a Tiffany product, but could he have been inspired by those designs?....Any thoughts are appreciated
Kind regards
Joschua
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http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-7154
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It looks decidedly non-British to me, but what a stunning colour. Was there any source given for the attribution?
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He doesnt give any reference for that particular glass. He is mentioning a book by Nicolas Powell in his Bibliography called "The sacred spring" from 1974, however I have no idea if that book even has to do with glass.
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Full title: Sacred Spring the Arts in Vienna 1898 1918 - Isbn 9780821206195
possibly a red herring - The Sacred Spring was an art period in Austria. A study of visual art, stage, opera, painting, ceramics, jewelry, etc.