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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: Paul S. on August 08, 2024, 03:00:24 PM
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Here is the other piece that was a recent charity shop purchase, and again without any marks - I've sent pix of this to Pamela too. Not a particularly strong glow, and not something I recall from the past. Maximum rim diameter is c. 33 cms. Quite possibly I'm missing one or even more parts - perhaps originally there might have been a frog and possibly even a base plinth. Not much more to say, but if you recognize the pattern do please shout, and thanks for looking.
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Google “mueller float bowl”
Regards Mike
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sincere thanks again Mike - I'm unsure as to whether I'm missing perhaps a centre figure or not, but it's a great piece, though I've yet to use the u.v. torch in the dark. some of the folk showing this bowl suggest it does have a centre figure - shame I'm missing that part. Date wise the suggestion is 'art deco', so that puts it c. 1925 - to 1940 perhaps. Your help much appreciated.
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I think this should have a really good glow, 1935 ish and yes I think would have fitted onto a plinth or base plate, and probably had a central flower frog figure. Hopefully someone can fill in the finer details as art deco is not my strong point, Mike
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Apparently it's the Paris exhibition of 1925 that was the source of the expression 'art deco' - though I understand that the term, for this art movement, didn't come into general use until much later - some time in the '40s or early '50s. Apparently anything can be described as 'art deco' - it refers to a style of visual art and not simply to material from the '20s and '30s - so whether made in 1925 or yesterday would be equally valid. It's a style that seems timeless and it's popularity never appears to wane - preceded of course by art nouveau - 1935 would be very much in the middle of the original art deco period.
Shame I appear to be missing bits - reminds me of my encounters with decanters - probably sixty percent of the bottles lack their original stoppers.
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Yes , and still very collectable in that colour.
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This is a good site for float bowls etc. There's a lot to search through. Schweig & Muller are a good possibility but they are a bit of a mystery, quite a few pieces are identified as theirs but I don't think there is any catalogue evidence.
https://theglassfloatbowlman.weebly.com/
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Many thanks NevB - agree, looks very interesting - will have a peek a little later.