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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: SNJ on June 17, 2021, 07:03:45 PM

Title: Purple Slag Glass Vase
Post by: SNJ on June 17, 2021, 07:03:45 PM

Would anyone please put a maker to this purple marbled vase with a distinctive pattern including overlapping arches below the rim. I can see several photos of identical vases online but, because they're on Piclick, the links are out of date. Height a little over 5 1/2", nothing to identify the maker.

Title: Re: Purple Slag Glass Vase
Post by: Roobarb on June 18, 2021, 03:27:13 PM

Hello - there's a lot of similar pieces on eBay as Imperial :)

Title: Re: Purple Slag Glass Vase
Post by: SNJ on June 18, 2021, 09:31:17 PM

Thanks for the suggestion, which actually helped a possible ID. While searching for Imperial, I found a photo of the identical vase, attributed to John Derbyshire, based on its similarity to a design registered by that glass producer in 1876.

Title: Re: Purple Slag Glass Vase
Post by: neilh on June 20, 2021, 07:35:40 AM

It's not John Derbyshire. I believe the rainbows at the top are supposed to be an Edward Moore pattern and it's probably by him, certainly it's northeast England

Title: Re: Purple Slag Glass Vase
Post by: flying free on June 21, 2021, 07:20:10 PM

When I see that top pattern on any pressed glass I don't think of rainbows,I immediately think of woven willow fencing :)

https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-live-willow-woven-screen-fencing-or-fedge-england-uk-37439699.html

Title: Re: Purple Slag Glass Vase
Post by: SNJ on June 22, 2021, 12:20:53 PM

Or the arches at the north of King's Cross station after excess alcohol. It was many years ago. In the meantime, I might have to abandon the vase attribution and leave as an unknown.