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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: brucebanner on July 09, 2016, 03:24:47 PM
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Any thought's on this one to an age please, the foot looks moulded and then cut, the vase looks hand blown and all of it has been cut even the sides, there is no pontil mark underneath just a smooth dome, it sounds like lead crystal.
The cutting is razor sharp on the vase but not on the base apart from the base rim edge.
10 inches in height, 5 inches across the rim and 4 3/8th inches across the base.
Regards Chris.
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I'm not personally aware of any cut celeries with lozenge or Rd. No. (that's not to say there aren't any) - against which is the fact that there are scores of pressed examples which carry Registration details - so this is a rather pessimistic way of saying that the chance of finding a maker for this one is probably frighteningly low.
Almost certainly unrelated, but perhaps worth mentioning as a feature which might possibly help with dating, is the cog wheel/saw tooth foot rim on this one which has a counterpart on a number of pressed pieces from the Derbyshire factory. In 1872 J. J. & T. Derbyshire Registered an entire suite No. 268810, all pieces of which (and there's something like eight separate shapes including a celery) have this design of rim in abundance. In fact when Neil recently had a cut celery (with this style of foot rim) which he believed to be M.W., Derbyshire as a maker was suggested on the basis of the rim alone - although think positive attribution remains unknown.
Not suggesting at all that this one is Derbyshire, but having an identical foot rim might just suggest a date of c. 1870s. Alternatively, this might be red herring, and there might be absolutely no date connection at all. Have a look at the Derbyshire designs and see what you think.