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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: Tigerchips on May 27, 2007, 10:32:50 PM

Title: Victorian, cranberry, opalecent and maybe Uranium part centrepiece.
Post by: Tigerchips on May 27, 2007, 10:32:50 PM

I'm thinking this is part of a larger centrepiece and probably Victorian.
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/albums/userpics/10011/Picture_49584.jpg
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/albums/userpics/10011/Picture_49583.jpg
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/albums/userpics/10011/Picture_49585.jpg
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/albums/userpics/10011/Picture_49586.jpg

Would there be any specific maker for this one?

Thanks Tony & Staff.

Title: Re: Victorian, cranberry, opalecent and maybe Uranium part centrepiece.
Post by: mrvaselineglass on May 28, 2007, 03:52:48 AM

Not sure of the maker, but you are right, there would have been a spelter (white pot metal) base with a connecting nut that this piece sat on.  Very pretty and Victorian, but don't know who made it.

regards
Mr. Vaseline Glass.

Title: Re: Victorian, cranberry, opalecent and maybe Uranium part centrepiece.
Post by: Pinkspoons on May 28, 2007, 07:51:12 AM

Whenever I come across similar pieces to this, it's almost always in Germany or thereabouts - so possibly it's continental?

Just a thought.

Title: Re: Victorian, cranberry, opalecent and maybe Uranium part centrepiece.
Post by: Tigerchips on May 28, 2007, 11:58:54 AM

Thanks, so you don't think there is anything else missing as I sometimes see them with a trumpet shaped peice of glass on the top?

Title: Re: Victorian, cranberry, opalecent and maybe Uranium part centrepiece.
Post by: Pinkspoons on May 28, 2007, 12:32:26 PM

It could be from a centrepiece epergne, but it could just as likely have been a common-or-garden fruit bowl, at a guess.