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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: NevB on August 19, 2020, 12:03:26 PM
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This is an 18cm. tall wine glass cut with stems and leaves on the bowl and leaves on the uranium glass foot. I thought at first it might have been by somebody like Webb and Corbett but I can't find an English make with the raised design of foot. I'm now leaning towards it being Italian as overall I think it looks like a classical Italian glass. There isn't much wear on the foot but the contact area is very small and it might not show.
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To find wear on a base with only a tiny contact ring, use the tip of your fingernail.
You can feel it, even if you can't see it.
My feelings about it are very Bohemian. :)
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The shape is similar to Hall-in-Tyrol façon de Venise goblets so maybe a much later glass inspired by an early style. (I think that’s Bohemia :) )
It might also help to call it a goblet, when researching an English Victorian glass of mine, this type of foot seemed quite popular on goblets.
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Thanks Sue that's a good tip. I can feel lots of tiny nibbles which are actually just visible in a different light. Thanks ekimp, "facon de Venise describes it quite well. I've had a quick look and it could be Bohemian but more research is needed. Venini Murano used a similar foot on their vases in the 1920's/30's but I don't think it's by them.
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if you shine a torch over the surface, you might be able to see a little wear at the right angle.
But fingernails are really very good, unless you chew them. ;)
My Grandpa had cocktail glasses very similar to this, with the same sort of cutting on the bowl (not on the base) and the stems were amber. I thought those were Bohemian - a different colour of stem and base with a clear bowl often does, to me.
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The cut and polished rim suggests Czech or other Continental country to me, but not Venetian. 1930s-1950s IMO
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Looking for something else in McConnell’s The Decanter and noticed Stuart did a glass much like this, sold with a decanter as No.26933 in 1932-33. It had a cllear bowl available with a green or gold foot. The book shows a plain one from the catalog and also a photo of one with similar style of cutting to the bowl (but a completely different cutting design). Might be a possibility if the rim fits etc. Page 407
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This is the decanter set without cutting: https://www.sellingantiques.co.uk/545616/art-deco-stuart-crystal-decanter-set/
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A Stuart rim would be heat polished. And I don't think Stuart ever did green uranium
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Thanks for the info Ekimp and Christine, I had a look at Stuart glasses but couldn't find anything similar but at least the ones you show have got the "trumpet" foot . I can't find one anywhere with the same foot, knop and bowl shape.
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Probably too much to ask but could it be from the Harry Powell "Glasses with Histories" range from 1900-1930's which were inspired by historical designs from across Europe?
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I doubt it for the same reasons I gave about it not being Stuart
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maybe try searching for Josephinenhutte or Josephinenhütte Schreiberhau Gerard Muller?
The shape is very familiar but I've no idea if they did it in uranglas and clear or if they did it cut/engraved.
https://www.botterweg.com/Muller_Gerard/Josephinenhutte_Schreiberhau/tabid/59/lotid/1677/Kavel-1677.aspx?language=nl-NL
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Thanks flying free, that's certainly the closest design I've seen, I'll investigate further.
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the merese looks similar on this one so I think it's an option worth exploring at least:
https://www.botterweg.com/Muller_Gerard/Josephinenhutte_Schreiberhau/tabid/234/lotid/9898/Lot-9898.aspx?language=en-US
However everything that comes up is clear glass, not decorated with engraving so it might be a dead end.
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I've also just found this one https://www.galerie-huffels.nl/?product=glas-servies-funnel-gerard-muller and as far as I can gather it is from the "Funnel Service" designed by Muller in 1924 and produced by Josephinenhutte Schreiberhau in Silesia, Poland. I think they could very well have been making uranium glass then and perhaps the decoration was added later.
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yes that's the series. Yes likely they would have used uranium glass,but unsure on your possibility it might have been decorated later. I think that's unlikely to be honest.
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Thanks, I'll keep looking.
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Thomas Webb - marked blue footed set here:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SIX-THOMAS-WEBB-RARE-ART-DECO-CRYSTAL-CUT-GLASS-1930s-BLUE-FOOT-GLASSES/324329226846?hash=item4b8387425e%3Ag%3AyREAAOSwV6VfgvQk&LH_BIN=1&LH_ItemCondition=3000%7C10
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Thanks very much Ekimp, they are definitely the same pattern although my glass is 7" tall. I've just had another look to make sure mine isn't marked and it's not, worst luck :(
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I've just had a look through all the suggestions for a maker and no-one thought they might be Webb ;D
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Not sure if you managed to find a maker for your drinking glass,if not it looks just like my Webb Coronation glasses.
They measure 17.7cms tall,foot is 8.6cms diameter and bowl is 10.4cms in diameter.
The amber/citrine foot has Webb England Coronation acid etched on and glows under a uv light.
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Thanks Paul, I think I had come to the conclusion it was Thomas Webb.