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Title: What is this?
Post by: BJB on October 01, 2006, 02:43:59 PM: This object came in a box with other glass, but it is a very strange looking thing.

The base has a large ground pontil mark, a short stem and looks like it has a pinched spout, but how it could be a jug is beyond me as there is no handle and it is very hard to pick up when full. ( I tried :oops: )

http://i9.tinypic.com/3093edz.jpg

It has been blown and there are tool marks and striations in the body.

Its about 9" tall and 7" across so it is some size.

Any ideas anyone?

Barbara
Title: can't check yet
Post by: wrightoutlook on October 01, 2006, 03:13:21 PM: Tiny Pic may be down or the link in your post is corrupted. Can't acccess the image. Tried four times. I'll check back later.
Title: What is this?
Post by: Ivo on October 01, 2006, 03:25:55 PM: Problem may be that the Tinypic image is unfeasibly large. Here is a smaller copy of Barbara's pic:

http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-3499
Title: What is this?
Post by: BJB on October 01, 2006, 03:35:27 PM: Hi Ivo,

Thankyou for hosting it for me, I have re-sized it so should be better :oops: (I hope) have you got any ideas about it.

Its so odd I have no idea where its come from never mind what it was used for !

Barbara
Title: What is this?
Post by: Sklounion on October 01, 2006, 05:09:15 PM: Hi,
I think this is quite a common form of martini pitcher, mainly scandinavian in design origin, and think that Holmegaard were one such manufacturer. No doubt Nic will correct me :wink:
Regards,
Marcus
Title: What is this?
Post by: BJB on October 01, 2006, 06:27:05 PM: Thanks Marcus,

Coo that takes me back to my yoof, when it was all the rage to drink Martini and lemonade and think you were the soul of sophistication, it was the next stage up from babycham :shock: :D both now taste vile :? but I can remember getting bladdered on both :wink:

Barbara
Title: What is this?
Post by: aa on October 06, 2006, 03:24:39 PM: http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-3556

some martini glasses to go with your pitcher?

:D
Title: What is this?
Post by: Cathy B on October 08, 2006, 03:05:26 PM: Quote from: "Le Casson"
Hi,
I think this is quite a common form of martini pitcher, mainly scandinavian in design origin, and think that Holmegaard were one such manufacturer. No doubt Nic will correct me :wink:
Regards,
Marcus

My first thought was HG as well. Nic?

C
Title: What is this?
Post by: BJB on October 08, 2006, 03:13:17 PM: Those glasses look a bit to posh to be used with my jug, they need something with a little more panache, I think.
Title: What is this?
Post by: Lustrousstone on October 17, 2006, 06:26:06 AM: Looks like a Tivoli 14938 Martini mixer designed by Per Lutken for Holmegaard in 1953 and produced until 1980. Andy McConnell page 147
Title: What is this?
Post by: Pinkspoons on October 17, 2006, 07:13:39 AM: Ah, only just spotted this thread - it came about whilst I was sunning myself in the tropics of Nottingham for a week. :lol:

But Tivoli it is.
Title: What is this?
Post by: butchiedog on October 19, 2006, 03:56:58 PM: Hi,

See if this is of any help.

x (http://cgi.ebay.ie/ORREFORS-OR-KOSTA-VASE-FOR-J-WUIDART-STENNET-WILSON_W0QQitemZ130034020584QQihZ003QQcategoryZ29565QQtcZphotoQQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)

I just stumbled on to it while searching for something else and rememberd seeing a similar item here.

Mike
Title: What is this?
Post by: Lustrousstone on October 19, 2006, 04:56:56 PM: The ebay one is not the same as Barbara's: hers has a pointy up spout and is taller. But it does look like the smaller one in the Holmegard Tivoli range. Maybe they were all making them!! :lol:
Title: What is this?
Post by: nigel benson on October 24, 2006, 08:01:09 PM: Hi,

Just to cloud the water a bit, these are also produced by English companies, for instance, I have seen them marked Stuart, England. I have also seen them with a Fortnum and Mason's acid etched mark - so who supplied them I wonder?

Nigel