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Glass Discussion & Research. NO IDENTIFICATION REQUESTS here please. => British & Irish Glass => Topic started by: agincourt17 on March 20, 2014, 05:34:22 PM
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An uncommon pressed blue-green slag glass cup and saucer set, both pieces bearing the Henry Greener lion trademark used between 1875 and 1885. The exterior surface of the cup and the saucer has an embossed leaf design. The top rim diameter of the cup is approx. 3 inches, and the saucer rim diameter is approx. 5 ¼ inches.
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Fred.
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A pressed purple slag glass cup and saucer set, both pieces bearing the Henry Greener lion trademark used between 1875 and 1885. Unlike the cup & saucer set in my previous post, the exterior surface of both pieces is undecorated.
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Fred.
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For comparison, here is a contemporary purple malachite cup and saucer set by Sowerby – pattern number 1400, RD 323400 (registered on 8 July 1878).
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The exterior surface of the cup and saucer is decorated with panels with a linear pattern crossing at an angle, though the actual design registration was for a handled posy basket with similar surface decoration (and which appears in the Sowerby pattern books as pattern 1325 or 1325½, depending on whether the handles are closed or open). I’ve seen several examples of this Sowerby cup and saucer set, and always in purple malachite.
This is yet another example of Sowerby and Greener producing very similar designs at about the same time - spies in the camp or just sufficient differences in the design to deflect accusations of plagiarism?
Fred.
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Photos of a Sowerby pattern 1400 cup in blue malachite, the first example that I have seen of this cup in anything but purple malachite.
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Fred.