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Title: sowerby
Post by: eshearm on October 26, 2013, 10:12:17 AM

Hi, I think this is sowerby, I would love your expert thoughts! kindests emma

Title: Re: sowerby
Post by: Paul S. on October 26, 2013, 12:47:16 PM

Hi Emma  -   Sowerby offered many celeries and with a great variety of decoration - moulded, engraved and cut, some of which double up as stands for large dishes etc.      These things seem to have been an obsession with the Victorians  -  as an item of table ware they seem to have been produced by almost every factory involved in making pressed glass.         I've looked through the Sowerby CD catalogue but regret I can't see this particular design.

However, there does seem to be an example of your design in Raymond Notley's book 'Popular Glass of the 19th & 20th Centuries' (one of the Miller's 'Collector's Guides').           It's described as 'an urn-shaped celery, unmarked, but probably made in France or Belgium', and is given a date of 1880's  -  although the example in the book doesn't have the wheel engraved fern decoration like yours.      This sort of decoration was a very popular form of Victorian decoration, so this certainly lends support to the author's date line.
Quite what prompts Raymond Notley to suggest the particular origins given, he doesn't say  -  maybe the Continentals were fond of urn-shaped pieces.

What made you suggest Sowerby?? :)
 

Title: Re: sowerby
Post by: eshearm on October 26, 2013, 02:28:15 PM

Hi

Sowerby did a very very similiar vase with the same fern etching and diamond/hobnail  in pairs down the sides.  Also the raised hollow arched base that does not sit flush to the floor.  Certainly agree c1880 but I just have a niggle of doubt, and I too could not find it in the catalogs I was looking in!! em x

Title: Re: sowerby
Post by: Anne on October 26, 2013, 03:36:30 PM

http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,5601.0.html

Title: Re: sowerby
Post by: Paul S. on October 26, 2013, 04:14:15 PM

If possible I'll try to get some information on 219638 next time I visit Kew.

Title: Re: sowerby
Post by: eshearm on October 26, 2013, 04:40:12 PM

well tahnk you so very much!! I was right to doubt and right to ask you experts out there thanks Anne and Paul S!

kindests emma

Title: Re: sowerby
Post by: Anne on October 26, 2013, 05:59:49 PM

Great, thanks Paul, that would be useful. :)

Title: Re: sowerby
Post by: Paul S. on October 26, 2013, 08:04:03 PM

regret I have to admit to not being an expert Emma  -  just a j-o-a-t ;D