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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: JOK on January 16, 2020, 10:19:47 AM
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I found this vase recently. I would guess from the wear to the base it is 1930s or so. It is really well cut, with each poppy head etched in a different phase. The feathering of the poppy leaves (tiny cuts on the edge of the main leaf stands) is also quite distinctive and really well executed in my opinion. Also the base cutting is more stylised (not just star cut). Any ideas on factory or cutter?
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At first glance it could be Webb, no mark on the base? They can be quite faint. Also look amongst the pattern there could be a tiny engravers signature next to a leaf or suchlike.
John
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My opinion on age would be to suggest not as old as 1930s. Always dangerous to generalize, but looking at cut glass styles from between the wars, there appears to have been more of a lean toward geometric cutting - plain deep mitres and designs created from curved mitres etc., rather than a mixture of cutting and wheel engraving - exceptions, for example, might be Murray for S. & W.
I could be wrong but would suggest the matt poppy details are likely to be wheel engraved rather than the etching you suggest (which is a wet process).
As John suggests, Webb Corbett (David Smith), Stuart (John Luxton), Thomas Webb (David Hammond) were major designers who were active during the 1950 - 1960 period, and who produced stunning work incorporating both cutting and wheel engraving - often using flower motifs - and when you consider that era is now c. seventy years old, then some reasonable wear is to be expected.
I've looked in my couple of books devoted to cut glass, but couldn't see this design - usual problem for collectors of cut material is the lack of a decent book.
Fingers crossed someone will recognize this one.
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Can we have some measurements please?
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It's 18.5cm high and 17cm diameter at the top and the foot is 11cm diameter
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Have you followed John's suggestion of searching very carefully for a tiny signature hidden amongst the cutting? :)
It's the first thing I'd do with something like this, because I have found tiny writing saying "Jack Lloyd" in the past, on something that looked "a bit good". ;D