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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: thewingedsphinx on December 29, 2017, 04:20:07 PM

Title: Salmon colour baskets
Post by: thewingedsphinx on December 29, 2017, 04:20:07 PM

Hi, I'd be very grateful in identifying  these two salmon coloured basket, we think they may be French, there is no mark on them and I've not seen anything else similar. See attached photo.
Thanks

Title: Re: Salmon colour baskets
Post by: Anne on December 29, 2017, 05:35:10 PM

Welcome to the board. We always need photos of the base for any ID request please, and one item per topic so we can keep track easily of what we are discussing. Thanks!

Title: Re: Salmon colour baskets
Post by: thewingedsphinx on December 30, 2017, 04:03:50 PM

Hi Anne, please see attached photos there very rough  if you think this item is not categorised correctly feel free to delete this post. Apologies for any confusion.

Thanks

Title: Re: Salmon colour baskets
Post by: Anne on December 31, 2017, 12:57:16 AM

Thanks for adding the base pics, I'm sure they'll help even if I'm still clueless. :) Fingers crossed someone else will pop along and take a look soon.

Title: Re: Salmon colour baskets
Post by: Mosquito on December 31, 2017, 03:34:51 AM

I'm fairly sure that these are ceramic rather than glass -- presumably a high-fired porcelain (hence the glassy appearance).

Looking at the crossed handles on the basket and the turned-in rim on the jug supports this. Glass baskets of this type have to be pressed in order for there to be sufficient pressure to form the handles. Manipulating the handles to cross or join in the centre would require heat: hence I would expect such a piece to have been 'stuck up' and therefore to have a ground foot rim. The same applies to the jug: the handle formed with the body would require pressing too but the turned in rim would have to be formed after (again requiring the piece to be stuck up on a punty and reheated at the glory hole), otherwise it would be impossible to remove the plunger. The fact that there are no signs of the base having been thus attached rules out glass for me.The shapes would however be easy to form in ceramic by slip casting, for example.

Title: Re: Salmon colour baskets
Post by: thewingedsphinx on December 31, 2017, 09:48:54 AM

Thanks Steve for your information.
Hopefully this query can now be closed and these two items will be put aside.
 I'm currently trying to identify 60 odd glass items my father has given the go ahead to move on, some of which now appear to be duff.

I'll be posting some more unmarked glass soon for identifying. I've just started taking photos of my parents collection of 1500 pieces. Luckily most is logged in a book, but there around 250 with queries, so I may be on this site for a while if I cannot find pictures of them on the web.

Cheers