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Title: Blue green Float bowl.. ID= Davidson S696D
Post by: selina on December 02, 2007, 11:48:51 PM

Hi all,

Hopefully my heading says most of what I want to know.

The colour of this bowl attracted me and I thought of Davidson cloud glass when I saw the shape but of course it isnt cloud glass. Ive looked on a few Davidson and Walther websites and they both made this similar style, but I didnt find any of theirs listed in a solid colour. Any other suggestions as to who it might be? I bought it as a float bowl so if anyone can confirm that and let me know whether it just has a frog or frog and centrepiece?
It measures 24cm across the top by 9.5cm high.

Trudy

Title: Re: Blue green Float bowl.. ID= Davidson S696D
Post by: Tony H on December 03, 2007, 12:36:12 AM

Hi Trudy
I would say Davidson. I have some examples of these bowls in non cloud colours. Take a look at www.cloudglass.com this site has a lot of info about Davidson glass in general.

Title: Re: Blue green Float bowl.. ID= Davidson S696D
Post by: Lustrousstone on December 03, 2007, 07:19:33 AM

Looks like a Davidson to me, although I can't spot the model number at a quick glance. Davidson didn't make centrepieces but a bowl like this probably had a domed frog and maybe a plinth. Davidson seems to have made many of its designs over many years and in whatever colour, cloud or plain, was fashionable. I suspect the teal was more toward the middle of the 20th century

Title: Re: Blue green Float bowl.. ID= Davidson S696D
Post by: selina on December 03, 2007, 10:02:44 AM

Thanks Tony, Christine. I had a look at that site. Walther apparently made one in a similar style too.

Christine I just could NOT describe the colour properly...TEAL !!! THANK YOU :)

Title: Re: Blue green Float bowl.. ID= Davidson S696D
Post by: ChrisStewart on December 03, 2007, 04:41:47 PM

Hi,

it is a Davidson S696D and judging by the colour a post WWII version., probably early 1960s.

Regards

Chris

Title: Re: Blue green Float bowl.. ID= Davidson S696D
Post by: selina on December 03, 2007, 10:01:31 PM

Hi Chris,

Thanks! Ive had a look through your cloud glass site again. I couldnt get a few pages to load yesterday. My computer!
Comparing the colours, you have a 10/1910 pattern which has an example in the same colour as my bowl. Antique blue its described as. Date introduced 1935. So would this colour have been earlier than 60's? I put the pics up together and compared the colours.

Trudy

Title: Re: Blue green Float bowl.. ID= Davidson S696D
Post by: Lustrousstone on December 04, 2007, 07:17:02 AM

I would go with Chris' date estimate. Davison made many of their designs for 20 or 30 years, over 30 years in the case of the 10/1910!!! The colours changed with the times though and that blue is a 60s sort of blue

Title: Re: Blue green Float bowl.. ID= Davidson S696D
Post by: ChrisStewart on December 04, 2007, 03:30:49 PM

Quote from: selina on December 03, 2007, 10:01:31 PM

Hi Chris,

Thanks! Ive had a look through your cloud glass site again. I couldnt get a few pages to load yesterday. My computer!
Comparing the colours, you have a 10/1910 pattern which has an example in the same colour as my bowl. Antique blue its described as. Date introduced 1935. So would this colour have been earlier than 60's? I put the pics up together and compared the colours.

Trudy

Hi Trudy,

Antique green and antique blue are both 1960s colours. Antique green was introduced in 1964, antique blue was introduced in the same year I think.

Regards

Chris

Title: Re: Blue green Float bowl.. ID= Davidson S696D
Post by: selina on December 04, 2007, 07:55:00 PM

Thanks again. :)
Now the hunt for the frog is on..either that or I'll just leave the lady sitting in it that I have. Not a match, Sowerby lady and Davidson bowl, but they seem to like each other anyway.