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Glass Discussion & Research. NO IDENTIFICATION REQUESTS here please. => British & Irish Glass => Topic started by: Leni on December 01, 2010, 12:52:18 PM
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This bowl in Webb's 'Sunshine Amber' Uranium glass is intaglio cut with a scene of a river bank. The lower half is water, and above are rushes and reeds, a tree, the sun (with a smiling face! :sun:) and a little bird in the sky.
Does anyone know which shape this footed bowl is, and who would have been the designer / engraver? I thought Webb's 'Gay Glass' only came in four types; plain, rippled, bullseye and 'Waterlily', which was the one which was cut with - I thought - a floral design. So what is this bowl, please?
Thanks.
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Utterly glorious beast, Leni! :sun: :thud: :sun:
"The sun has got his hat on,
hip-hip-hip hooray,
The sub has got his hat one
and he's coming out to play."
This song would have been popular around the time this was made, and wondered if this might have been in some way inspiration for the unusual and fascinating cutting in this piece?
I see a little bird in flight as well as the sunny face!
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Love it, used to have a vase with the design, Parkington relieved me of that 8)
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Ah-ha - so it's not a "one-off", although it's not one of the normal standard 4 ranges.
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Doh! :pb: What did I forget - again? :spls: The size! ::) In case anyone is interested, it's 6.25 inches (16cm) tall and 7.5 inches (19cm) in diameter.
Thanks for your comments, Sue & Frank :)
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It's beautiful Leni :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
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It´s so lovely it makes me gay! :mrgreen: :thup: :mrgreen:
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hmmm ...http://www.liveauctioneers.com/bonhams/item/166225 piece indeed !!
similar ?
http://www.liveauctioneers.com/bonhams/item/166225
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There are obviously no botanists at Bonhams; that's the standard water lily design.
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hmmm ...http://www.liveauctioneers.com/bonhams/item/166225 piece indeed !
:o :thud: at auctioneer's estimate! ::)
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These are really mega loveluies, it is so rare to get production glass from that period with humour included, I always regretted parting with mine but Parkington was good at bribery and what he forced me to sell my best pieces to him at was quite obscene.
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Thanks again for the :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: comments ;) ;D
Christine has informed me that the 'Gay Glass' range was designed by Thomas Pitchford. Frank, do you (or does anyone else!) know anything about who would have been responsible for the cutting of this design, or what it was called, or anything else about it? It doesn't seem to be one of the four designs, plain, rippled, bullseye and waterlily, or did those names just refer to the shapes? :huh:
Any additional information would be great! Thank you :)
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Waterlily is cut Plain. Ripple and Bullseye are mould effects. The Gay range of shapes seems quite large.
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A Bullseye,as Christine says,one of many shapes.....
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:tsk:
Getting back to the fabulous vase, according to my reading (with extra close-up glasses and a magnifing glass) there seems to be the number 45897 under this shape of vase in the image of the catalogue on p.141 of Hajdamach's 20th century book.
We know it's Webb, we know it's Sunshine Amber, we know it's not the intaglio cut of Waterlilies which is the "normal" standard in the Gay Glass range.
We know Frank had one, now with Parkington, so it's unlikely to be a complete one-off, (unless this turns out to be the same vase).
So has anybody any idea where this fabulous cut originated, who may have designed it, who cut it and was there somebody behind commissioning this unusual design?
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We know Frank had one, now with Parkington, so it's unlikely to be a complete one-off, (unless this turns out to be the same vase).
:o :thud: Not Impossible, I suppose, although I would have thought it a bit unlikely! What in fact happened to the rest of the Parkington collection? I know from Frank's Monart Glass page http://www.ysartglass.com/Ysart/Monartglass.htm that a large part of it was sold in 1997 and 1998, but was that only Monart & Vasart pieces? If so, what happened to the rest? :huh:
So has anybody any idea where this fabulous cut originated, who may have designed it, who cut it and was there somebody behind commissioning this unusual design?
That's just what I was hoping to discover, Sue :) Thank you for bringing the thread back to those questions! I wish someone could answer them, or at least give me an idea where to start looking for answers! :spls:
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A sizeable chunk went to Broadfield house, presumably the chunk on loan in the V&A stayed there. Some got distributed privately and the rest went in a two day auction at Christies, the two catalogues are themselves collectors items as their coverage of British glass was great. A fair amount got broken or damaged by the auctioneers. There were some minor errors of attribution in the catalogues.
No idea who designed it but there can't be that many options, I presume it was made after WW2??
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'A fair amount got broken or damaged by the auctioneers'...........streuth - well they certainaly won't be handling my collection ;). One or two may be understandable - but 'a fair amount' sounds deplorable for an auction house of that repute. :o