Topic: Roman type flagon.

[bat20]

Hi all,not Roman,but designed by someone influenced by the style i would guess,about 18cm high with good wear on the corners it rests on,no wear at all to the rim where you would have thought a stopper would be,but was worked on so maybe had a cork,you could see this fitting in at Ikea and what's wrong with that, it was the large polished pontil that pushed me to get it,any thoughts many thanks..

[johnphilip]

Whitefriars its in the book , nice it should have a stopper .

[bat20]

Thanks jp, ,they must have broken the stopper day one

[bat20]

I've been on the Wf's site and from what i can make out it was designed by Harry Powell in 1938,No2091,interestingly i think it started with no handle and was 7"tall then becoming 8"tall with handle in 1940, mine is 7.25 " to the top of the handle and 7"to the top of the lip,i'm not sure what measurement point they would have used or wether handles varied that much in height?

[bat20]

  Or maybe to top of the stopper

[johnphilip]

They varied a lot over the years and many have lost the stoppers I have the old Sky blue with no stopper also a couple of amber a couple of sea green and the old brown colour most with handles but a couple without , one pictured  in the book has no stopper the size varies as well as they were hand made , a couple of years ago they would go for £150 /£200 . yup .

[johnphilip]

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