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Title: Vaseline glass jar??
Post by: bat20 on July 04, 2019, 12:44:06 PM: Hi all,this small jar has a lot of wear too the base and a wide shallow polished pontil(which are both difficult to photo).Anyone recognise the style,sort of Victorian 60’s cross ??
Title: Re: Vaseline glass jar??
Post by: bat20 on July 04, 2019, 04:36:31 PM: Back from work!, so a little more information.It's 8.5 cm in height and I think has a uranium glow rather than mangenese?.... It reminds me a bit of a mini spittoon or a leech/seed jar??
Title: Re: Vaseline glass jar??
Post by: flying free on July 05, 2019, 07:52:05 AM: I don't know, but I absolutely love that piece! It's fabulous.

m
Title: Re: Vaseline glass jar??
Post by: bat20 on July 05, 2019, 04:57:49 PM: I like it too m ,It's got something about it whatever it was made for.
Title: Re: Vaseline glass jar??
Post by: flying free on July 07, 2019, 06:09:07 PM: I've seen this somewhere before. Have you got the Cyril Manley book?
I'll have a look later and see if it's in there.

meanwhile - can we have some more pics please? against a white background ? Just wanting to see the detail :)

m
Title: Re: Vaseline glass jar??
Post by: bat20 on July 07, 2019, 06:45:29 PM: No I haven't got his book sadly,thanks for making the effort m and here are a few more images.
Title: Re: Vaseline glass jar??
Post by: flying free on July 07, 2019, 09:25:47 PM: Knew I'd seen it before.

Richardson. I think ... if the museum collection is correct. This one was a Benjamin Richardson III bequest:

http://blackcountryhistory.org/collections/getrecord/DMUSE_ST95/

and

http://cdn.collectionsbase.org.uk/dmuse/300_st95.jpg

Collection information on the site says:
Quote:
'Flower bowl
Maker: Richardson
Production Place: Wordsley; England
Production Date: 1880 - 1900
Production Period: Victorian (1837-1900)
Object Name: Flower bowl
Object Name: Decorative Ware
ObjectNumber: ST95
Summary: Richardson flower bowl with blue trailed rim and chain border.
Description: Flower bowl, yellow glass, gourd shape ribbed body, decorated with blue trailed rim onto opalescent and cased with crystal, blue chain boarder and rim.
Dimensions: Diameter 11.5cm
Credit Line: Stourbridge Collection, Benjamin Richardson III Bequest
Technique: Blown; applied decoration;
Tags: Gorgeous Glass
For more information contact: Dudley Museums Service'

Very slightly envious :)

and please could you turn your pictures the right way up? Is that possible?

m
Title: Re: Vaseline glass jar??
Post by: flying free on July 07, 2019, 10:39:24 PM: There is another piece out there somewhere. Just trying to find it but I think it was the same design as the one in the museum.
m
Title: Re: Vaseline glass jar??
Post by: bat20 on July 08, 2019, 05:57:20 AM: That's fantastic m!,thank's very much for taking the time I'm really chuffed!..I don't know why my photo's do that?!on my computer they're the right way up.The last time a kindly mod managed to turn them the right way up.
Title: Re: Vaseline glass jar??
Post by: flying free on July 08, 2019, 06:16:14 AM: I can't find the other one rather annoyingly, but I'm sure they are the same maker, I'm sure it had the chain effect on it so was similar design to the one in the Museum collection rather than yours.
So there are at least three including yours.

It's utterly gorgeous and I love the effect of the decoration and colours. Must be very difficult to do and on an opalescent glass background as well.

m
Title: Re: Vaseline glass jar??
Post by: flying free on July 08, 2019, 07:16:06 PM: Here you go:

https://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/101992-steuben-stevens-and-williams-tiffany?in=441-activity
Title: Re: Vaseline glass jar??
Post by: bat20 on July 09, 2019, 06:41:17 AM: Interesting stuff m and many thanks again!,looks like it was a very limited run on this particular style.