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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: Ohio on September 16, 2011, 06:32:22 PM
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Today was a semi-annual extravaganza in our area & I picked up this Ewer, 10 1/2" height & 5 1/2" diameter, gold & enameled garden scene with a coupled of butterflies & dragonflies. The decoration is all around the entire piece & the #588 is scratched in the polished pontil along with a signature which I frankly cannot make out without speculation. I'm thinking Bohemian, but am requesting assistance & input. Thanks, Ken
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Wow an Auguste Jean, Pantin (Paris) ca 1880s! Not the typical enameled ware either - quite an impresive piece.
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absolutely right and can I say
double WOW!!
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Wow an Auguste Jean, Pantin (Paris) ca 1880s! Not the typical enameled ware either - quite an impresive piece.
Ivo my most sincere thanks. I had no idea. Now the crazy part & I know this is impossible to believe, but its the god's truth....this couple had retired & was downsizing a very signifcant collection of American art pottery. There were probably 70-80 people at their tables...prices were pretty good at the $150 to $400 level for the type of pottery (probably 300+ pieces) they had, but then again they had collected for almost 40 years so they bought well. I found this out after speaking with the wife when I bought this & it was the only piece of glass they brought or even had for that matter & it had belonged to the husband's aunt who passed it down to him. It sat by itself on a small folding table & she handed it to me when I asked about it then she went on to wait on another buyer. When she came back I asked her for a price as it wasn't marked. She hollered at her husband & he said I have no idea...you price it & she said I have no idea either & frankly neither of us ever liked it & it has been in our kithen cabinet for years so how does $10 sound? I said that was far more than fair & she said OK $10 it is then. I was stunned & even asked her if she was sure? & she said yes $10 & though I didn't know what it was I knew it was at the least a decent piece, but not this decent. She told me they were doing very well selling out their collection & she was happy to be rid of that one piece of glass they had. This one I'll keep for myself & thanks again. Ken
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congratulations on acquiring a museum piece - hang on to it, it is a stunner.
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Wow, Ken, what a wonderful story! $10 for a museum piece... Unbelievable and FANTASTIC!
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Oh Ken, what a lovely thing to find, congratulations, it's gorgeous! :mrgreen: :hiclp: :hiclp: :hiclp:
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Great find.... Great Story..... I love it when that happens...... That is why we all continue to look.... because the finds are still out there and always will be....... Congratulations Ken.....
Craig
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Just wanted to say thanks to all for the kind comments. Been awhile since I've found something that is good. Ken
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Congrats, can you treat us to some more images please.
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I agree... that way we can live vicariously through your camera......
and Ken, I think this find goes past "good" and enters into the category of "Great"!!
Craig
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Craig & Frank. Was out all day & got some shots tonight at different angles. Will have to do this in a couple of groups. Ken
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Second group.
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:hiclp: :sun: that is incredibly beautiful. How wonderful for you.
m
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All a matter of personal taste and I can understand them only asking $10 :spls:. But on the other hand it is exquisitely well made and decorated. I would try and get some more history if you can as it may be traceable to an US exposition.
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I agree Frank on the personal taste statement as the art pottery they were selling...well I grew up with it in Eastern Ohio & I have never owned a piece of art pottery uin 38 years of collecting as I have zero interest in it probably because I did grow up surrounded by it.
I spent some time attempting to put together Auguste Jean & his work & the web is full of pages that contain conflicting information. There are guesses that he was born sometime between 1830-1835. Several sources state he founded his workshop around 1859 working in ceramics (his father was a known ceramist) & was not involved in glass until 1875 through 1885 when he stopped producing glass & went back to ceramics. He did file for a few patents in France designed to give a décor or metallic glints first to ceramics then to his glasswork. His first enameled work featured Persian designs & then later Japanese designs & no solid info is available as to where he set up shop, just a possibility that it was in the Cristallerie De Clichy in Paris. He was awarded a bronze metal at the Universal Exhibition in Paris in 1878 for his work in glass & was thought of as an artistic design inventor. Several mention cabochuns & enameling insects mixed with gilt decorations on pieces. One bit of info said he was active until 1907 & no more so I have no idea if this means he passed on or just stopped working in ceramics. There simply isn't a wealth of info on him or his work or at least I could not find anything that amounted to solid documentation. I could not find anything on him as a participant in any U.S. exposition or fair during the years 1875-1885. Ken
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It may have been exhibited by T. Ducy who sold his glass and porcelain decoration. They were at 53 Rue de Chateaudun, Paris.