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Glass Discussion & Research. NO IDENTIFICATION REQUESTS here please. => British & Irish Glass => Topic started by: agincourt17 on October 31, 2013, 09:17:46 PM
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A pair of green opalescent Sowerby pattern 1240 ‘Gladstone bags’ which appears on page 4 of their pattern book IX (1882). There are from registered design number 314283, registered on 18 September 1877. The opalescence is mainly toards the base of the pieces, and I am told that the glass is not UV-reactive.
(Permission for the re-use of these images on the GMB granted by glassmahonia).
Usually seen in blue or purple malachite or plain black vitro-porcelain, these are the first opalescent green versions I have seen.
The only other opalescent versions I know of are a pair of rose opalescent examples in the Shipley Art Gallery (and which are shown in the pattern number gallery in the final section of Vol. 3 of the Thistlewood Sowerby CD-ROM catalogues).
Someone must value these green opalescent versions highly too, because they reached a final bid price of £292.82 after a frenetic final few seconds of bidding on eBay tonight.
Fred.
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Hi Fred
One in plain white vitro-porcelain.
Roy
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Thank you, Roy.
The only other vitro-porcelain example I have come across was pale blue.
Fred.
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very attractive. I can post a watermarked pic of the National Archive drawing of 314283 submitted by Sowerby, if you would like Fred - let me know.
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Thank you, Paul. That would be very useful.
Fred.
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Sowerby very busy around this time - purple ink drawings everywhere - but I wish they'd used black ink, for some reason the purple doesn't translate well onto modern digital pix.
Hope of some use.
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Excellent, Paul.
Fred.