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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: NevB on June 28, 2019, 10:54:47 AM
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This is a 4" tall uranium glass posy vase with a rectangle pattern and a star cut base. First thoughts were that it was Sowerby but I can't find one like it. I have seen a Bernsdorf "Lady" dish with similar rectangles but that is all. Any ideas please?
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It's a little difficult to make out the pattern, but it looks a bit like Inwald's "Balmoral".
One of the very few pressed glass patterns I know a little. It's not unlike the Davidson/Inwald "Jacobean", but the panels stick out a bit. ;D
These items were made in both pressed glass and crystal. Crystal pieces were more expensive and would have polished bottoms.
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Thanks Sue, yes it's difficult to get a decent photo because the pattern is quite fine so I've added another photo. I've found a Leerdam vase with a similar pattern but on my one the glass is a lot thinner. Also it hasn't got a mould line on the rim so I think it was perhaps finished by hand.
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Reposted photo
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I can't see the shape of the panel or the shape of the spaces between them properly.
The top part of the panel part should stick out a bit. I think the space between them should be slightly triangular.
Crystal bits were hand finished, and would have had mould seams polished out. They were a bit more up-market.
I've done a bit of digging. I found this. It seems more has been found out since the old assumption that this was Inwald is now known to be wrong.
https://www.carnivalglassworldwide.com/unknown-maker.html
I only know about it because it is a bit like Jacobean, which is made by both Davidson and Inwald.
But Jacobean doesn't have spaces between the panels, or the top bit sticking out a bit. ???
I can't find any images of the pattern i am thinking of. I am used to seeing it in charity shops. (Or was. ::) )
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Thanks for your efforts Sue. Yes there is a lip at the top of the panels which are rectangular and widen as they go up. I think from the style it is late thirties / forties. The glass is only 2-3mm. thick, other pressed glass usually seems a lot thicker.
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PS. the panels are also slightly concave.
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Curiously I've found these at the back of a cupboard, the pot is unmarked but the sherry glass is marked "Jacobean (Regd)".
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There is a LOT of that around. I know somebody who was trying to collect to catalogue every bit, at one point.
I found a small glass, illustrated in a drawing in a Gerald Durrell book. (a '50s hardback edn.)
It's useful for you to have those to compare the pattern in your posy with. :)
Your description is making it sound more and more like the "Balmoral" pattern I am thinking of, but Glen's article says there is some doubt about the origins.
We know Glen Thistlewood to be accurate and follow up. :)
With that rim, your vase would have been hand finished.
I'm also sure somebody else might know a bit more than i do, Nev. ::)
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Thanks, I'll wait and see.
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There's a vase listed on eBay ...
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Art-Deco-Miniature-Blue-Glass-Vase/283440972571
which resembles the OP's vase. Is it the same? If so, it reminds me of some features of some Hermanova glass. I can't find the exactly matching pattern but some of the details of the OP's vase resemble some of the features seen in items contained in the CD (Hermanova, up to 1958 catalogue, page 6) accompanying the book "SKLO Union: Art Before Industry: 20th Century Czech Pressed Glass" by Marcus Newhall (Hardback, 2008).