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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: NevB on September 14, 2020, 09:14:48 AM
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I think this is a French carafe probably from the late 19th. early 20th. century as I've seen others for sale in France. It may originally have had a stopper and is probably a liqueur bottle maybe even for Absinthe. Hand blown with a large ground pontil and vertical optic stripes.
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Photos didn't post!
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This link is from the Jayet Freres 1910 catalogue on glas-musterbuch. The image isn't clear enough to make a positive ID but it is very close and perhaps confirms the carafe is French. https://www.glas-musterbuch.de/Jayet-Freres-1910.349+B6YmFja1BJRD0zNDkmcHJvZHVjdElEPTE0MTcyJnBpZF9wcm9kdWN0PTM0OSZkZXRhaWw9.0.html
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That's a great find in the catalogue!
No perhaps not completely identical but it is certainly very close especially in the design - the way the ribs only extend to a certain height, and the rim finish.
Lovely large and well done pontil mark - always looks so classy :)
Is it possible to see a photo on a plain white background please to better see the colour of the glass in daylight?
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Here are two more photos, one under natural light and one under a flash, it tends to lose the definition filmed against a white background. I've also pictured two glasses I've just remembered I had, they go well together. Amazingly I got the carafe from a car boot sale, it was really glowing in the sunshine.
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https://www.glas-musterbuch.de/Legras-1899.9+B6YmFja1BJRD05JnByb2R1Y3RJRD00NTYmcGlkX3Byb2R1Y3Q9OSZkZXRhaWw9.0.html There are also these in the Legras catalogue.
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mm, could be either - the neck on yours looks longer and the body rounder rather than onion shaped as in both the catalogue links. However I definitely think it could come from either of those. I might lean more to Legras.
They definitely used a pale uranium glass as I have a peacock vase in uranium glass from them which is quite light yellowish if I recall correctly.
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It would be nice to have some dimensions in the catalogues. Even the ones for sale in France didn't give any indication as to the maker, I'll keep looking.
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I thought I'd bump this as by a strange coincidence I've just found another one about half a mile from where I found the first. New one is on the right.
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;D Very jammy, and very, very fortunate!
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It's all about being in the right place at the right time Sue, although sometimes the glass seems to be calling to me ;D. I have to wonder how they ended up in the same place.
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;D This sort of thing has happened to me, but only once. I found a very scarce Tapio Wirkkala decanter one week, and 10 matching shot glasses the next.
But to have this pair of carafes when your main interest is in quality uranium pieces is really rather wonderful. I'm very pleased for you. I like good news. 8)
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Thanks Sue.
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It's all about being in the right place at the right time
For that to happen you have to put the hours in, effort is worth more than luck.
John
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Both together is quite good. 8)
And some knowledge helps a lot.
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To gain that knowledge takes some time and effort, the more stuff you can handle the better which inevitably means travelling to different places, time and effort again. You can learn a huge amount via the keyboard (time and effort) but chances are won't be able to handle as much stuff just from home. Taking some new found knowledge out and about with you can be very fruitful especially with repeated cycles of learning and handling. To be in the right place at the right time usually means getting out and about as much as possible, it takes some time and effort to know where those right places are. :D