Topic: Bohemia/whitefriars Bowl ?

[mazindevon]

Hi help needed with id on this bowl it looks flash cut or green on clear it measures nearly 9" wide by 2,1/2" high it has a clean polished pontil ,the cuts are large oval circles with leaf pattern
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2ujhxuf&s=3
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2mw5uup&s=3
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=14xgvvm&s=3
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=1zwdnw3&s=3

[wesley]

I didn't think whitefriars did much flashing on glass apart from the fancy stuff manufactured by the Chance brothers in the 50's.

The ground pontil, although associated with whitefriars really only indicates that it is hand blown.

Best wishes,

Wes

[Lustrousstone]

Whitefriars and Chance weren't the same company and Chance didn't make this sort of stuff anyway!! Chance flashed glass is all slumped glass. Continental Europe seems a better bet for your lovely bowl.

[mazindevon]

thanks for the advice i really love this bowl it is absolutely gorgeous i do want to find out who made it though, any advice on who might be able to identify it ?
kind regards Marion

[alexander]

This should maybe be moved to Glass?

[Pip]

It's Val St Lambert-ish  :huh:

[wesley]

I agree with all everything you say Lustrousstone. I thought though that Chance bros did some designing for Whitefriars in the 1950's red flash on clear poss? -  nothing like this example though.

Best wishes,

Wes

 

[Anne]

Hi Wes, a little confusion I think between Whitefriars and Geoffrey Baxter. Baxter is known to have used some of the Chance flashed blanks for intaglio work for his degree show. This was *before* he joined Whitefriars.

[Source: Chance Expressions, The History of Domestic Glassware from Chance Brothers, by David P Encill, published 2007] More detail and photo examples in the book!

[wesley]

Thank you for clarifying this for me Anne.    :clap:

This website is so useful for novices like myself for building up a knowledge bank.

On the downside, I now want to find an example of this for my collection and it sounds like it is going to cost me!   


Best wishes,

Wes