Topic: Large speckled blown bowl. ID = Webb Corbett

[flying free]

and this piece has a similar base finish to yours - not polished.
http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,25777.msg142523.html#msg142523

A correction - I'd not clicked on the Saleroom link and assumed those vases were a squat version, however if you click on the link they enlarge to correct size which is the same as the ones in the CH 20th Century British Glass plate, which is a Webb Corbett advert .

So the Saleroom pair are identical to those in the advert in the book, and your bowl is the same decor as those.
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[WhatHo!]

Thanks for all your help with this piece, the evidence is strong Webb Corbett Flambe Agate it is then!!!

[nigelbenson]

Spot on M

[flying free]

 

I've just realised something as well -
This bowl here
https://new.liveauctioneers.com/item/5715143
is definitely a Webb &Corbett Agate Flambe and NOT a Stevens and Williams Moss Agate bowl (which I knew anyway) but the signature underneath which looks a bit strange is only strange because you can't see the entire signature which was W & C England.
I've seen another purple Agate Flambe Webb & Corbett piece with that same hand signed signature.
Also, the photograph of the base of that bowl makes it looks strange, but if you click on the close up pic (the two bottom pics) you will see that it has a non polished large pontil mark on the base - you can just catch the edge of the ground but not polished pontil mark.
Not the first time a Webb & Corbett Agate Flambe has been sold as Steuben or Stevens and Williams  .  And there are very few of these W & C pieces around at all.
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[nigelbenson]

The script mark is very rarely seen. The first one I saw was some 42 years back in my first year of collecting. Naturally I thought it was normal, but I was wrong 

Nigel

[Greg.]

For further reference, attached pic of the signature on a Agate Flambe example:

[flying free]

Thanks for adding a pic Greg.

Interestingly my piece is the purple version and also has a highly polished pontil mark.  It fills the complete foot (it's a bun foot). 
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[flying free]

You didn't buy the signed piece then Nigel ?
That's a shame because these are few and far between regardless of whether they have a signature or not.   I wonder why they signed some?
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[Lustrousstone]

Possibly the signed ones might have been part of a batch destined for export, even if they never left the UK

[flying free]

Oh that's a good point. Funnily enough the two I've seen have been for sale in the US.
Not to say they were originally sold there but that would tie in.
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