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Title: Pressed glass lavender vase ?
Post by: bat20 on September 15, 2023, 06:48:35 PM

Hi , I think this could be french glass and maybe mid 19th century ,could be a small vase or a drinking glass …any thoughts thanks .It’s 13cm in height .

Title: Re: Pressed glass lavender vase ?
Post by: neilh on September 16, 2023, 05:28:40 PM

It's a goblet / tumbler with various makers.
If you have one with pattern number 119 in the bottom then it's Molineaux Webb

Title: Re: Pressed glass lavender vase ?
Post by: bat20 on September 16, 2023, 06:50:56 PM

Thanks so much Neil !,I was so sure it was French I really didn’t look for anything in the bowl , but yes just looked in and there is a 119 !, time to brush up on English pressed glass !,thanks again .

Title: Re: Pressed glass lavender vase ?
Post by: bat20 on September 16, 2023, 06:59:04 PM

Here’s the 119

Title: Re: Pressed glass lavender vase ?
Post by: flying free on September 16, 2023, 10:27:47 PM

Neil what  year would this date to please? 

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Title: Re: Pressed glass lavender vase ?
Post by: neilh on September 17, 2023, 08:28:08 AM

I would date it to the 1850s in UK glass. It is in the Molineaux Webb 1870 catalogue. It is in the 1881 Percival Vickers catalogue, very similar design. Probably made in Europe and USA as well. I think there are a few "design classics" which many factories would have made, and this is one of them. MW seem to have applied pattern numbers only to such "classic" tumbler shapes like this one - most of those in the MW catalogue snippet below. With MW and PV, this was made is various sizes and I suspect in colours as well, though I've yet to find one.

Title: Re: Pressed glass lavender vase ?
Post by: flying free on September 17, 2023, 09:19:44 AM

Thank you.  Interesting that they impressed the pattern number on this one.  Did they impress pattern numbers on  all of them?
The sequencing of the pattern numbers or lack of sequencing (ref your picture)  always strikes me as very strange when I see that MW clip (I'd been looking at MW similarities for my uranium tumblers).
Also interesting is the design of the foot.  These type of designs were around on Bohemian glass in the Biedermeier period. The lozenge type geometric designs were in the Launay Hautin catalogues from 1841. So the design of that lozenge plus the foot looks very old fashioned for 1870 and later to me.

There is a tumbler in that pattern clip you showed that has a design on it I've only seen on Clichy glass. I'm going to go and check my Clichy book again to ensure my memory's not playing tricks.