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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: flying free on July 11, 2021, 12:25:22 PM
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Described in the Royal Collection as one of part of a set of 14 ' verrieres '.
Item looks similar to that which we've been discussing on the Queen Victoria bowl thread as a finger bowl :-\
I'm just wondering if using the correct terminology of the time might help further searches ::)
https://www.rct.uk/collection/search#/38/collection/68278/set-of-verrieres
set of 14 verrieres.
On reading the description of how these came into the Royal Collection it's a wonder the Liverpool Corporation didn't go bust.
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might have been more helpful if an English descriptive word had been used instead - notice that the other items are described in English. Foreign words don't always travel well - seems that verrieres has at different times been used to describe rinsers, finger bowls and Monteiths - so take your pick. I'd also suggest the term hobnail is incorrect - the side cutting showing here is very typical of large relief diamonds, whereas hobnails are usually an eight-sided cut feature - sometimes called cane by the guys on the other side of the pond. From a practical point of view this design looks fated from the word go - can't see that rim staying pristine after the folk below stairs had done the washing up a few times. Size wise they're a good depth for either rinser or finger bowl - all those I've seen have had a smooth rim when used as finger bowl, and either one or two (opposing) notches if a rinser, but they appear way OTT for a monteith - you get the feeling that they were made simply as a tour-de-force of the company's glass cutting abilities - but would look good used as a desert or sweet meat bowl. If they're on ebay, I'll take a punt m - where do you see them starting - K350 perhaps. Sorry, hadn't see the other GMB thread you mention.
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The other GMB thread is at 14 pages of my ramblings so you really don't want to go there :)
Well, the final few posts are key, but the rest is all the justification for my conclusion ;D
Yes it's an odd word to use - especially since they were made at Perrin Geddes ... that well known French firm ::)
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Wot, you ramble - perish the thought ;D ;D