Topic: bagley art nouveau. Really?

[OxfordElla]

I recently bought this vase in a local charity shop for £2.50p and have since then seen one only for sale on ebay, advertised as bagley from the art nouveau period-this surprised me as it "feels" more like a sixties piece. The dealer looks reputable, so I am prepared to be surprised! Please let me know what you think. I would like to use the piece as part of a vintage home exhibition I am putting together for a charity event, if I can positively identify.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/the-arts-in-mind/6320120774/in/photostream

http://www.flickr.com/photos/the-arts-in-mind/6320124300/in/photostream/

showing another blue item for colour comparison:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/the-arts-in-mind/6319613399/in/photostream/


Please help! I know of Angela's book, but at the moment i am having to put all my resources into getting a new not-for-profit community arts and music organisation rolling - including the vintage event mentioned - and so cannot possibly buy it until after that. I will be putting up a number of i.d. requests in the next few days with links to a flickr photostream - any help to identify these pieces would be greatly appreciated. This is my first posting - so if this part of the message is not in the appropriate place, please do move it, glass powers that be.

thanks - Eleanor

[ahremck]

First and foremost, welcome to this fabulous board.      

I doubt you will be surprised - can't imagine Art Nouveau glass like that - especially after Kralik, Loetz & Galle, etc.  I agree it looks 50s, 60s or perhaps 70s.  I suggest you post photos of the base of anything you want help with.  By the way - good photos - very clear.

As a very longshot - that is not the type of glass I attempt to collect - I am wondering about Ravenhead as a possibility.

Ross

[Anne]

Not Bagley as far as I'm aware Eleanor. That colour is known in Davidson but I'm not familiar with that shape from them.

Welcome to the board, we'll help as much as we can.

[Lustrousstone]

Definitely Davidson or rather Brama Davidson when the company had been taken over by Abrahams and renamed Brama Davidson. Very late 1960s/early 1970s. Luna pattern. (I've seen this shape before.)

It would be extremely difficult to find any Bagley Art Nouveau, as the Crystal Glass Works wasn't set up until 1912 and that was the bit that made pressed glass. Bagley was always was (and still is as Stölzle-Flaconnage) primarily a bottle factory.

Always take ebay attributions with a bucket of salt.

[OxfordElla]

Thanks so much for all answers - made my morning very exciting - my first answers! Well I am glad to have trusted my instincts on that one. Glad to have a bit of Luna pattern - it will go well with my other moon landing items on the exhibition!

best wishes Eleanor :t: have a lovely cuppa with me!