Topic: Sowerby Pattern 1170 Unusual Colourway

[mhgcgolfclub]

Sowerby vase pattern 1170 in a very unusual colourway. The base colour looks to be black or very dark amethyst with a best described as white splodges to the surface.

Height just under 4".
Faint date lozenge to base which cannot be read.

Roy

[agincourt17]

Sowerby pattern 1170 appears on page 2 of pattern book IX (1882). From registered design number 304363, registered on 16 October 1876 – Parcel 8.

I don’t think I have ever seen this colourway on a Sowerby piece, which appears to be white marvered on black or very dark blue glass before insertion into the mould - quite different from the normal malachite colours (where the colours run right through the piece). Normally seen in plain opaque vitro- porcelain.

Fred.

[Lustrousstone]

Cottle describes them as cased on p56 but says nothing else about this effect

[agincourt17]

Thank you, Christine.

I had forgotten that that plate was in Cottle. The four pieces shown could easily be mistaken for 1960s studio glass, especially the three vases. Interesting that they all seem to be mould-blown designs rather than press-moulded.

Fred.

[Paul S.]

very good find Roy..........and quite rare I'd imagine.

No help from the Archives I'm afraid  -  simply says 'flint glass vase'.                   

[mhgcgolfclub]

Thanks Fred for adding the info on the item.

Paul I cannot remember seeing another item in this colour .

Roy