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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: malcmat on September 13, 2010, 09:55:26 PM
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Hi, can anyone id this bowl. its pink on the inside and white on the out side. Its see through on the body with a 4 ruffled rim edge.
3.5 inches dia and 3.5 inches tall.
polished pontil mark.
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Looks like Mount Washington.....Maybe Burmese or Peachblow.....
I didn't do any research but that might be a good place to start....
I think Webb also had a similar line.
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English or Bohemian is likely, though I might put my money on English. It's neither peachblow nor Burmese. It may be uranium custard glass lined with pink, but you would need a UV light to check that.
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Hi, thanks for the information i need to purchase a back light of the correct type to verify if there is any reaction can you point me in the right direction.
Many thanks
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Black lights can be found on eBay or at Maplins for reasonable sums. :thup:
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Many thanks Anne, Maplines 10 minutes away will see what they have to offer.
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Hi, no UV reaction with the light.
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Gulliver devotes a number of pages to similar small posy type vases with many, like yours, showing a four way crimp in varying degrees of size. Most examples show applied decoration - showing stylized Acanthus leaves, nuts, fruits etc., so your is a more simple version. Gulliver seems to have block described these as being dated to c.1885, and "formed in creamy white/opal white glass over pale ruby". Height is usually somewhere between 4 and 6 inches, and like yours they usually had a polished concave pontil mark. Probably for obvious reasons, Gulliver omitted any formal attribution on any of his examples, so we will go with Lustrousstone's experienced thoughts.
Reference: Victorian Decorative Glass - British Designs, 1850 - 1914. Mervyn Gulliver 2002.
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Thank you so much Paul what a wonderfull description for a lovely piece of glass.
Again thank you all