Topic: Glassware with Fern/Woodland Imagery

[Camay]

I'm keen to find some early-mid 20th century glass vases and vessels that incorporate etched or even pressed motifs of ferns fronds/fern leaves, or woodland scenery. Does anyone know of factories, patterns and makers I might look out for?

[jsmeasell]

I'd be glad to talk with you by phone. Are you in the USA by chance?

[Camay]

Thankyou, but no I am in the UK! Do you have suggestions or even better a website/page here with such patterns for sale?
Kind regards

[Lustrousstone]

Ferns were popular with Victorians (less so in the 20th century), as I expect you know, so there is a fair amount of unidentified etched glass about. Cameo vases often have woodland scenes, but they are expensive. Engraved Bohemian glass sometimes has woodland scenes (with hunting or deer).

It's a very specific request and one you are unlikely to get very helpful answers to, so my only suggestion is regular searching of ebay and online shops selling glass.

[jsmeasell]

Take a look at this now on eBay: 150391320588

This short of engraving (also called "light cutting" or "grey cutting") was done by many, many companies here in the US. Some both made glass and did the decorating while others did decorating only.

[rosieposie]

How about this one Camay?  I think it ticks a lot of boxes??
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/PHOENIX-GLASS-BROWN-MILK-GLASS-FERN-PATTERN-VASE-MINT-/150621756941?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2311c19e0d

Or, you could go for a model of a Koru:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Studio-glass-fern-sculpture-Koru-Venus-glass-signed-/170657485426?pt=UK_Art_Glass&hash=item27bbfa9272

[pamela]

 :hi: and welcome to GMB!

Here is one of three fern sugar bowls on my pages. They may originate from Meisenthal, France, however, Scandinavia is another possibility - maker still under investigation 

The base of this butter dish shows a hunting scene   (scroll down)

Sorry, none of these are for sale; but you may get an eye for similar pressed glass items - if this is what you are looking for at all 

[chopin-liszt]

Keep your eyes peeled in charity shops - there is a sort of "genre" of Scottish fern engraved glass - much of it done by amateurs, no way of ever finding out the origins of these bits!

I've got a couple - one I thought was a pint beer glass - until I noticed a round dome in the bottom - and decided it was more likely to be a vase, and older that I had originally thought.... (so I didn't put it in the dishwasher again :pb: )
the other thing I have is a little vinegar bottle, with a hollow stopper - quite a nicely made thing.
I'll try to get pics for you if the sun ever comes out again.......

[rosieposie]

Not quite the exact time frame, but isn't this a lovely piece?
http://www.bathantiquesonline.com/antique-collectible/glass-glassware/antique-fern-engraved-miniature-glass-jug-collectible-34730.html
What I haven't confessed to you Camay, is that ferns are one of my very favourite plants, so I am really enjoying this search!!

[chopin-liszt]

Here is a lovely jug - photographed through the glass cases of Edinburgh Museum.