Topic: another glass ewer for Ivo

[RAY]

it stand's 6.5" high with a clear applied glass handle, there are glass cane's which are very very fine within the body of the ewer, the base is signed D LANY OR D LAMY or something, there's also a seal on the base which cover's the pontil with the letter's i think SCILLY

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid118/p9d92b62305932909617a43afaca7505e/f8819f0e.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid118/pc52234a63ed1b150482fb7c748a7f2cd/f8819f0a.jpg

[Frank]

Interesting I have seen another ewer with a similar handled but more canes and it was being suggested as Salvador Ysart - though it is not of the same quality as a superb Ysart ewer that I own.

[RAY]

forgot to say frank the signature has been done in silver gild, any idea to the seal on the base

[Frank]

Cannot see it well enough?

[Ivo]

Sorry haven't got a clue. No D.Lamy on record in the french directory, only C. Lamy - but he's a glazer. I think it is from a small glasshouse and quite recent - but then again - anything is possible. Signature in gold could be from a dealer, too!

[KevinH]

I wonder whether Frank's comment on "another ewer ... suggested as Salvador Ysart" is about the one shown in the "Great Glass" site at:
http://www.great-glass.co.uk/library/lib6a.htm
("Monart" section - item no. 7255)

I have handled that ewer and compared it to another of virtually identical form, which again now has my DNA imprint. In both of those cases, there was enough evidence for me to be 90% happy with a "Salvador Ysart" attribution.

But Ray's ewer is not really of the same detailed style, apart from having a "scroll top" handle and using flattened and stretched canes in the body. I do not recognise the canes but they could just as easily be imported from Murano as being "home produced".

I have no knowledge of the signature or of the particular seal on the base. But "Scilly" would make sense for an item produced in the Scilly Isles - possibly at around the same time as Jersey, Guernsey and Isle of Wight glass were first becoming popular, and which also sometimes had "seal" type signature logos.

[Frank]

Ray, pics gone and this is the oldest unresolved thread... until now.

[RAY]

 i still have the vase  .....

[Frank]

Weird... is that the same? Does not seem to tie in with the description

the base is signed D LANY OR D LAMY or something, there's also a seal on the base which cover's the pontil with the letter's i think SCILLY

[flying free]

the ewer posted just above is I think possibly Bohemian and not the one originally in this thread?  but just for reference there is another thread here
http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,28969.msg156942.html#msg156942
that has some items with the SCI mark on the base and also with millefiori canes in.
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