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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: Andy on December 12, 2007, 11:51:47 AM
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Hi ,
I went to the Glass Fair at Gaydon in November, and saw Bernard Cs lovely glass,
i noticed several similar to the piccies below, i always thought it was well made,
probably Italian 50s, but having seen similar I have identified it as English,
by John Walsh Walsh, in a Venetian range,
im not sure of date , maybe Bernard could confirm mine is by the Stourbridge maker
and the approx date, hope you like it , and others will find it useful!
Andy :D
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VERY nice! :clap:
I like your Bayeux Tapestry upholstery, too ;D
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Andy — Thanks for your kind words.
Walsh applied for the trademark Vesta Venetian on 16 October 1907, launching the range to the trade on 1 November in an advertisement in The Pottery Gazette.
The advertisement contains a small drawing, and it is difficult to tell which of the two styles of Vesta Venetian was illustrated.
The first of these was Walsh mother-of-pearl.
The second was the fiery bone-ash opalescent coloured style, of which you saw several examples on my stand at Gaydon, and of which your pedestal vase is a good example.
About four years ago I had the same problem as you, but I came from the opposite direction. Initially I had not seen stemmed and footed examples, and had identified both styles with full confidence. I then started acquiring pieces in the second style like your vase with fiery bone-ash opalescent stems and feet. What worried me was that these stems and feet were a perfect match to known Italian glass, for example see here (http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,5095.msg41907.html#msg41907).
Accordingly I showed examples to the foremost authority on Murano and Italian glass, who kindly confirmed to me that not only were they not Murano or Italian, but that they were very English in style, obviously so, and the pedestal vase was certainly no earlier than the early 1920s, and possibly much later. Some may have even been made post-war, up to the closure of the Walsh factory in 1951.
So my confidence was restored.
Bernard C. 8)
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Hi Bernard,
thanks for the informative reply, i enjoyed reading through the old threads, i learnt
a lot from it all, its a super vase, and great to have it positively identified ;D
Best wishes,
Andy