Topic: Is this an IOW bowl?

[glassobsessed]

My hunch is that your second bowl was made at Liskeard, the way the colour is broken up into 4 quarters like that and pushes up in the centre is familiar. Those bowls come in a couple of different shapes and they don't always have an impressed LG mark. Can't find any examples online at present but occasionally see them when out and about, with luck might get some photos.

[chopin-liszt]

My little bowl is pushed up in the middle inside too - but the top is rounded, not flat.
I don't know the Liskeard ones, but as John says,"only" 4 petal sections is very worrying, as is the splodgy appearance of the white.
And the lack of elongated "spoke-like" bubbles found in Petit Fluer... and the layers of colours on top of each other rather than beside...

I think we're getting to there being too many "not quite right" features for IoWSG for the second, bigger one.

[Ekimp]

It doesn’t show very well in the photographs but the first bowl is in four quadrants like the second bowl. (Hope this makes sense...) The four dark pink spokes in the second bowl go through the width of the bottom, then the big ‘flower’ colour is in the lower surface of the bottom. This is the same in the first bowl but you can’t see the four main spokes so clearly due to the pattern in the ‘flower’.

In both bowls, the sides curve in towards the top so that there’s a lip/overhang on the inside. The rims of the bowls are quite thick and curved. I know you can’t calibrate base wear but I thought it was a bit light for early 1980s on both bowls.

[chopin-liszt]

The first one has lots of spokes, which is correct for IoWSG. Lots of spokes could give rise to the appearance of there being 4 quadrants - just from the way they ended up spaced.
It's the lack of spokes in the second worries me. A lot.

[Ekimp]

Yes, the many spokes are in the lower surface except for four of them that go through the width of the bottom (just like the second bowl), you can see them by parallax as you view the bowl at different angles.