Glass Message Board

Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: pamela on October 17, 2010, 07:21:54 PM

Title: Strange Insects - Pressed Bowl For ID, please
Post by: pamela on October 17, 2010, 07:21:54 PM

Clear-white bowl, brought from UK - Ø approx. 22 cms
Sorry for poor quality of pictures  :ooh:

Any hints where to look, please?

Thank you  :sun:

Title: Re: Strange Insects - Pressed Bowl For ID, please
Post by: Paul S. on October 17, 2010, 09:08:21 PM

I'd like to return the favour Pamela - but no idea of how to id the insect.   I think it is just a heavily stylized bug :)  Oddly, tho, the antennae seem to have been forgotten in the second pic., or am I just not seeing them?? :)

Title: Re: Strange Insects - Pressed Bowl For ID, please
Post by: Paul S. on October 17, 2010, 09:11:19 PM

sorry, just realized - I'm looking at the wrong end of the creature.  :-[

Title: Re: Strange Insects - Pressed Bowl For ID, please
Post by: Frank on October 18, 2010, 12:41:41 AM

Butterfly

Title: Re: Strange Insects - Pressed Bowl For ID, please
Post by: claretjugcollector on October 18, 2010, 03:59:57 PM

look likes a bee - maybe the underplate of a honey jar ?!

Title: Re: Strange Insects - Pressed Bowl For ID, please
Post by: Anne on October 21, 2010, 04:40:31 PM

I'd agree with Thomas, a bee, but who made it I've no idea.

Title: Re: Strange Insects - Pressed Bowl For ID, please
Post by: KevinH on October 21, 2010, 10:08:06 PM

Artistic licence might allow these to be bees.

But surely (most) bees have their wings set very close togeher with the hind wings being much smaller than the forewings, not widely spaced with larger hind wings.

Title: Re: Strange Insects - Pressed Bowl For ID, please
Post by: Paul S. on October 22, 2010, 08:33:12 AM

now Kev  -  you're taking it too seriously - after all it's only a stylized representation of a four winged insect...........actually, I thought it looked a bit like a winged termite (can you get winged termites?) :pb: :wsh:

Title: Re: Strange Insects - Pressed Bowl For ID, please
Post by: claretjugcollector on October 22, 2010, 08:45:17 AM

and there is bohemian manufacturer named SCHLEVOGT in Gablonz and his signature is a bee or a bumble bee - but this looks more like an UFO  :sm:

Title: Re: Strange Insects - Pressed Bowl For ID, please
Post by: pamela on October 22, 2010, 02:28:41 PM

Thomas, up to now didn't know of a Schlevogt-bee,  :huh: do you mean his father-in-law Hoffmann's butterfly mark ?

http://www.pressglas-pavillon.de/aschenbecher/02416.html
http://www.pressglas-pavillon.de/karaffen/04235.html

 :ha:

Title: Re: Strange Insects - Pressed Bowl For ID, please
Post by: claretjugcollector on October 22, 2010, 02:32:19 PM

sorry - i am a little " KO " today - i meant butterfly :-) thx ( Danke und gruss nach Deutschland )