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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: Aislingeanbeag on April 10, 2023, 12:27:21 PM
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I have re-found our old oval pressed bowl but I have had a query since we acquired it approx 30 years ago as a little bit of Victorian English glass
Oval pressed glass bowl with flat base and Lions heads eating their tales for handles
How old and who produced these?
I previously thought Victorian but who knows?
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A search of "lion handled glass bowl" came up with several including this, with a lid.
https://www.replacements.com/crystal-bryce-amazon-oval-covered-bowl/p/79338591
More info here.
https://www.eapgs.net/pattern-details.php?idx=120
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Thank you to NevB for clearing up this old mystery and starting a new one.
I wonder how a Bryce Bros Victorian serving bowl ended up in a small farm cottage in the Angus, Scottish countryside?
Where has it been since it was made 1 1/4 centuries ago?
Where did the lid go?
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In those days, pressed glass was an expensive item. You can find pressed bits of this kind of age, especially if they are decorative, which have been repaired using metal staples if they get broken. It was a difficult and time comsuming job, drilling tiny holes on both sides of broken bits and creating the staple to fit inbetween them. They would have been passed down or on. Glass travels some surprising distances. ;D