Topic: Sower by Queens ware question please

[bat20]

Hi all,found this lovely piece this morning and it's always a surprise when you know what something is and the seller only asks 50p!,I have seen this glass before,books online etc,but never live and was quite surprised to see it has a slight green tinge,on getting home I torched it and yes it glows,does all queens ware glow,many thanks.

[Lustrousstone]

Yes all Queen's Ivory glows; the white does not glow. That was a super bargain

[bat20]

Thanks Christine,got to admit to being well chuffed with it that's the sort of thing that lightens your step after a few hours trudging about finding naff all!,just a quick tip,if you see a very new Range Rover turn up at a boot fair and start stalling up,head towards it like your life depended on it

[chopin-liszt]

  I think Christine will be making a bee-line for any expensive car that appears at a boot and starts setting up from now on... if she doesn't already.

[Paul S.]

congratulations bat  -  nice piece, and not one that I've seen in the flesh. .....................   think we'll all start to follow you around.

You don't mention the presence, or otherwise, of a trademark or Rd. No. - and although I'm not too well up on these QPIW things - I did think they were all marked.
This design appears in Cottle - p. 101, although he makes no comment on whether it was made in QPIW only or white vitro-porcelain only, or both.
Having checked the National Archives, and comparing this with Cottle and the op's pix, the Rd. No. looks to be 328744 dated 4th November 1878 - and was one of 12 Sowerby designs Registered on the same date............   the full range of Registrations for that day was 328740 - 51.

Sowerby's own factory pattern No. is 1350.1/2 - and according to Cottle this appears in Sowerby Pattern Book IX p. 7  -  I've not checked the Thistlewood CD's yet  -  maybe there were two sizes  -  but just guessing.

I'll post a watermarked pic of the Archives image shortly.

P.S.    The 'white' that Christine refers to - that doesn't glow - is the ordinary white Vitro-porcelain.

[chopin-liszt]

 
The second image shows the reg. mark, Paul. 

[Paul S.]

sorry, I'll have to cut out the strong beer of a Sunday lunchtime - thought it was a blank pic.            In my defence, and as a reminder, it's worth including the Rd. No. as part of the subject heading, or text, just for future reference and to help in searches.

here then is the National Archive picture  -  and as usual, the design is for the plain outline shape, rather than including any decoration.

[bat20]

Thanks very much Paul,it's 5cm ht by the way,i don't think you'd want to follow me around to many boot fairs as Lady Luck normally gives me a good kicking,this time I received a pat on the head and hopefully one day we'll get even more intimate.

[Paul S.]

the good pickings at these places have decreased enormously in the past couple of years - time was I could always come back with a bag of bits and pieces on a Sunday morning, but now it's hardly worth getting out of bed at five thirty - especially if it's dark and cold.

this one should please Fred.

[brucebanner]

Nice pictures, the last 20 odd rd registered bits I have found have been in here following a Google search and Gmb search, it really is useful to have the title corrected and correct rd number out in the main heading it is a great reference point for anyone around the world, lovely find and I agree with Paul with the amount of dealers at car boots it's hardly worth getting out of bed, the last car boot I went to in Exeter I found a Georgian ale glass and a couple of signed studio pieces so it's not a total loss, it fuels the addiction when you find a gem like this for next to nothing.