Topic: A Small Butterfly Bowl - Maker Please?

[pamela]

Sold as Davidson, but cannot find a proof. Handles look as if Edward Moore could have made this:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290434663012&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT

Neither lozenge nor Reg. No. that I can see.

Thanks for your opinions 

[mhgcgolfclub]

Pamela I have seen and sold a few of these over the years in other colours , they have never been marked or signed and I myself do not know the maker although youe idea of Edward Moore is not a bad guess

Roy

[jsmeasell]

Poor picture, but the design of the handles looks similar to pieces known to be Moore.

I have a great interest in Edward Moore items (esp. the opaque brown and green) and recently reviewed a Moore catalog that probably dates from the 1870s.

[pamela]

Thank you, Roy and James! 
It has safely arrived meanwhile from this very nice seller - I shall try and take some photos from different angles.

Probable 1870 Moore catalogue sounds most interesting, James, will you be kind enough to share some views of it, please please? 

[pamela]

here are some photos of the butterfly, measurements of bowl (trough?) are top length approx. 15 cms, top width approx. 7 cms

next post will show two close-ups of similar flowers found on two unknown sugars

Thanks for your time 

[pamela]

two sugars on stem, one blue and one white - related to the bowl?

[mhgcgolfclub]

Pamela

I have just looked through all my pictures but with no luck as I am sure I have had a pair of the Butterfly vases but in a blue pearline opalescent colour, cannot be sure they were exactly the same but think they were, I do not think Edward Moore made that type of glass, but Davidson , Greener , Burtles and Tate did , Sowerby made at least one item in a yellow vaseline opalescent.

My best guess would be from one either Davidson , Greener and a less of a chance Burtles and Tate

Roy

[Lustrousstone]

I have had a pair of the Butterfly vases but in a blue pearline opalescent colour

It is not impossible that it's an Edward Moore design as Davidson bought all their moulds.

The little dotty flowers strike me as Greenerish though.

[mhgcgolfclub]

Christine I agree 100% that it could well be an Edward Moore design looking at the handles.

The  ones I sold were blue pearline and if I remember looked very much like Davidson pearline which all fits together very well if Davidson bought the moulds , I do not think that Greener made them now because there blue pearline always looks slightly different to Davidsons to me.

I also agree that the dotty flower item looked very much like Greener to me, reminds me of some of the Greener commemorative bowls and plates

Roy

[Paul S.]

Pamela - sorry that I can't give you the answer that you want  -  but have you asked the seller why this piece was given a Davidson attribution??  -they may know something that the rest of us don't