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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Unresolved Glass Queries => Topic started by: Anne E.B. on September 28, 2005, 05:30:42 PM
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http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y195/glassie/8d68666e.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y195/glassie/2bfceee3.jpg
This is similar in shape to Cathy's posy bowls featured in a recent thread "Nazeing, not nazeing or puzzle?" Apologies for being a Luddite and unable to copy the link here. However, mine has a wavy ribbed pattern. It has a large polished pontil mark. I'm sure I've seen one of these somewhere before but can't remember the maker. Can anyone help please? Also, presumably there would be a flower block to go with it, so what would it look like? Does anyone have one with its original block? It seems to have quite a bit of age with wear on the base. So last question, when would this likely to have been made?
Many thanks :P
Regards - Anne E.B. :wink:
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Anne,
Quite a few companies used the optic wave effects - Whitefriars and one of the Webb companies* come to mind, but I'm sure someone in the US would have made optic wave patterns too. The WF wave is more like a swag than a wave.
Oh, look here's a mate for it. The seller doesn't know who made it either, but has also been told "it mite [sic] be webb".
http://www.trocadero.com/glassman/items/306477/item306477store.html#item **
Not much help, I'm afraid. Hopefully someone who knows what they are talking about can come along and clarify!
Cathy.
*Yes, I didn't realise there were more than one either, and now I don't know whether the optic waves were Thomas Webb of Burmese glass fame or one of t'other Webbs!
** How do you shorten the links? I know you can't just use HTML code.
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Actually I've just looked up the Jackson WF book and on page 70 there's an illustration from a Thomas Webb catalogue from 1930-1931, showing a toilet water set ("pitcher suite"). The wave on it is clearly more swag-like than in your posy bowl also.
So, back to square one. Sorry!
Cathy
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I can't help Anne, but what a drop dead gorgeous colour! :D :D
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Many thanks Cathy for your comments which are always appreciated and you have been really helpful :P I checked out the link you gave. Its always great to see an identical piece. Interesting that it was listed in items pre 1920. I wonder how they would know it was that if they didn't know the maker? Was this a popular design around that time I wonder? I love a good mystery - in retrospect of course, once it has been solved :roll:
p.s. I hadn't realised that there was more than one Webb company :oops: . How inconsiderate of them to have the same name! :P
I can't help Anne, but what a drop dead gorgeous colour! :D :D
It looks gorgeous on the windowsill as I type this, with the sun (inbetween the rain!) shining through it. I love this colour. Just wish I could wear it. Makes me look pale and ill. Yellow is another colour I can't wear. It reflects onto my skin making me look jaundiced :roll:
Regards - Anne E.B. :wink:
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Yellow is another colour I can't wear. It reflects onto my skin making me look jaundiced :roll:
Be reassured, Anne, that very few complexions can wear yellow successfully. Really dark brown (commonly called 'black' :twisted: ) skin can look fantastic in it. IMHO not many others do.
I reckon you probably could could wear purple, as long as you keep it away from your face.
I only recently noticed that if I wear creams and beiges now (with rapidly greying hair :( ) I just disappear into the background! :( (Who said that? :shock: :wink: )
I don't know why, but I always think of purple glass as being more modern. (By this I suppose I mean what I call modern - as in '30's or later :roll: ) Am I right in this, or will someone now come up with dozens of Victorian examples to prove me wrong? (Again! :( )
Leni