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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: SNJ on October 20, 2017, 05:47:35 PM

Title: Blue milk glass toothpick holder
Post by: SNJ on October 20, 2017, 05:47:35 PM

Anyone recognise the maker, please?

2½" tall, hobnail lower half, scrolls against a stippled ground top half and even a moulded pattern on the underside which seems a little unnecessary!

Title: Re: Blue milk glass toothpick holder
Post by: Paul S. on October 20, 2017, 08:20:05 PM

not that I'd know the difference between authentic and copies, but can we be sure this one isn't an Avon production  -  they are known to have copied some Victorian milk glass patterns?

Title: Re: Blue milk glass toothpick holder
Post by: SNJ on October 21, 2017, 12:13:08 PM

Good point and not one that I'd considered. Thanks, Paul.

Title: Re: Blue milk glass toothpick holder
Post by: mhgcgolfclub on October 21, 2017, 12:45:25 PM

Looks very similar to Portieux Vallerysthal , milk glass or blue opaline.

Roy

Title: Re: Blue milk glass toothpick holder
Post by: SNJ on October 22, 2017, 10:03:20 AM

That's a possible attribution that I definitely prefer!

Title: Re: Blue milk glass toothpick holder
Post by: Paul S. on October 22, 2017, 10:41:53 AM

 ;D

Title: Re: Blue milk glass toothpick holder
Post by: flying free on October 22, 2017, 10:52:46 AM

Possibly  made in Gateshead Tyne and Wear according to the British Museum, about 1880:-  Bequeathed by Barbara Morris

http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=3366566&partId=1&images=true&object=22419&material=18616&page=1

http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details/collection_image_gallery.aspx?assetId=999659001&objectId=3366566&partId=1

Title: Re: Blue milk glass toothpick holder
Post by: Paul S. on October 22, 2017, 12:36:30 PM

well done m  :)  - I wonder why the B.M., and not the V. & A.?              I notice these museums making much use of question marks linked to their provenance/attributions  ;)               Forgive my ignorance, but were Sowerby the only pressed maker in the Tyneside area?   

Title: Re: Blue milk glass toothpick holder
Post by: flying free on October 22, 2017, 01:15:07 PM

Yes ... the question marks ... it's a good thing though. 

I know absolutely nothing about pressed glass Paul, nothing. So I've no idea who was up there I'm afraid - ooh maybe Davidson.
So perhaps they don't know which one it came from, or didn't when it was left to them.

m