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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass Paperweights => Topic started by: Alton11 on September 20, 2009, 03:04:48 AM
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both are very heavy for there sizes( 3.25 in high ), and second one ( 3rd pic )has almost no curve from base to point. Interiors looks to be made of similar material?
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Top one is Japanese.
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That's interesting. I think Cyril Manley in his book on Victorian glass cites this as being Stevens and Williams. I have one of these PW and have just read Cyril's book on holiday but need to get a magnifying glass on the page in question. I'm not saying he's right though...
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Hi, there are several makers who have made this type of "fat" flowers, I have seen both Swedish and Japanese
paperweights of this design.
The reason I landed on Japanese for this one was the flowerpot which looks like it contains
canes of a type often found in paperweights marketed as "Lenwile Glass, Ardalt, Japan".
The "fat" flower paperweights from Japan are often marked "Original Lutetian Glass"
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I don't think they're canes. I think they're frit.
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Cyril definitely says Stevens and Williams, wonder where he got that from? He does have some errors in his book though
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any chance of posting a picture for comparison?
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It's here (http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,4334.msg34568.html#msg34568). I know it says the photos have gone, but they haven't, just the thumbnails (I think Photobucket messed), so click on the top row of error messages
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A google search yields few results for lutetian glass, mostly ended ebay auctions.
This one is similar, (http://74.125.77.132/search?q=cache:fHRfg4dBYxUJ:cgi.ebay.ph/ws/eBayISAPI.dll%3FViewItem%26item%3D290336328152+lutetian+glass+paperweight&cd=1&hl=no&ct=clnk&gl=no") altho the colors are off (google buffered page).
I have saved some images with lables from previous eBay listsing but can't post them due to copyright.
The Lutetian Glass paperweights usually have a frit flowerpot, I thought the flowerpot in the picture looked like Ardalt canes
but the picture isn't clear enough to be sure - the colors appear similar to the usual Ardalt colors.
I have found very little on the makers of these (the Japanese) weights online.
A caveat tho - this flower arrangement is a fairly common theme in paperweights, as I mentioned earlier I see it frequently in Swedish
paperweights, usually at tradera.se, a Swedish subsidiary of eBay.
It is quite possible that a British maker made similar weights