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Title: Bohemia/whitefriars Bowl ?
Post by: mazindevon on February 26, 2008, 02:13:08 PM

Hi help needed with id on this bowl it looks flash cut or green on clear it measures nearly 9" wide by 2,1/2" high it has a clean polished pontil ,the cuts are large oval circles with leaf pattern
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2ujhxuf&s=3
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2mw5uup&s=3
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=14xgvvm&s=3
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=1zwdnw3&s=3

Title: Re: Bohemia/whitefriars Bowl ?
Post by: wesley on February 26, 2008, 11:26:37 PM

I didn't think whitefriars did much flashing on glass apart from the fancy stuff manufactured by the Chance brothers in the 50's.

The ground pontil, although associated with whitefriars really only indicates that it is hand blown.

Best wishes,

Wes

Title: Re: Bohemia/whitefriars Bowl ?
Post by: Lustrousstone on February 27, 2008, 07:28:49 AM

Whitefriars and Chance weren't the same company and Chance didn't make this sort of stuff anyway!! Chance flashed glass is all slumped glass. Continental Europe seems a better bet for your lovely bowl.

Title: Re: Bohemia/whitefriars Bowl ?
Post by: mazindevon on February 27, 2008, 09:38:26 AM

thanks for the advice i really love this bowl it is absolutely gorgeous i do want to find out who made it though, any advice on who might be able to identify it ?
kind regards Marion

Title: Re: Bohemia/whitefriars Bowl ?
Post by: alexander on February 27, 2008, 09:41:39 AM

This should maybe be moved to Glass?

Title: Re: Bohemia/whitefriars Bowl ?
Post by: Pip on February 27, 2008, 12:53:22 PM

It's Val St Lambert-ish  :huh:

Title: Re: Bohemia/whitefriars Bowl ?
Post by: wesley on February 27, 2008, 01:08:46 PM

I agree with all everything you say Lustrousstone. I thought though that Chance bros did some designing for Whitefriars in the 1950's red flash on clear poss? -  nothing like this example though.

Best wishes,

Wes

 

Title: Re: Bohemia/whitefriars Bowl ?
Post by: Anne on February 27, 2008, 01:46:36 PM

Hi Wes, a little confusion I think between Whitefriars and Geoffrey Baxter. Baxter is known to have used some of the Chance flashed blanks for intaglio work for his degree show. This was *before* he joined Whitefriars.

[Source: Chance Expressions, The History of Domestic Glassware from Chance Brothers, by David P Encill, published 2007] More detail and photo examples in the book! 8)

Title: Re: Bohemia/whitefriars Bowl ?
Post by: wesley on February 27, 2008, 09:09:15 PM

Thank you for clarifying this for me Anne.    :clap:

This website is so useful for novices like myself for building up a knowledge bank.

On the downside, I now want to find an example of this for my collection and it sounds like it is going to cost me!  :P 


Best wishes,

Wes