Topic: swan decorated pressed vase

[malcmat]

Hi,i am trying to find an ID for this swan decorated pressed vase 7 inches tall.
Regards

[Lustrousstone]

This may help, or not https://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,62933.0.html

[malcmat]

Many thanks Christine quite interesting reading.
Regards

[Paul S.]

:-)  -  more like tortuous I'd suggest.          Knowing that certain popular moulds can and have been re-used over long periods of time, then it's not unreasonable to assume that something which is genuinely period - well over the century - would show comensurate wear.
Perhaps malcmat might say if this clear pressed example has the sort of wear that would equate to that length of time.           I've not been aware of seeing a clear example of this thing previously - though that means nothing - there are hordes of designs I shall never see.

Presumably the Sowerby versus Moore argument was never solved conclusively.

I notice that none of the dozen or so examples of this design - sold at Sotheby's in the Michael Parkington collection - was a clear example - they all seem to have been vitro-porcelain of some colour or another.

[malcmat]

Hi Paul, yes there is a substantial amount of ware / chips on and around the base circumference.
Regards
Malc

[catshome]

Just spotted this malachite one on ebay......attributed to "Davidson or Sowerby", no reference given and no mention of Moore

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Rare-Antique-Davidson-Sowerby-Blue-White-Malachite-Glass-Vase-Three-Swans-/254360308058?ul_ref=https%253A%252F%252Frover.ebay.com%252Frover%252F1%252F710-53481-19255-0%252F1%253Fcampid%253D5337607145%2526customid%253D123%2526toolid%253D10018%2526mpre%253Dhttps%25253A%25252F%25252Fwww.ebay.co.uk%25252Fitm%25252FRare-Antique-Davidson-Sowerby-Blue-White-Malachite-Glass-Vase-Three-Swans-%25252F254360308058%2526srcrot%253D710-53481-19255-0%2526rvr_id%253D2116084550618%2526rvr_ts%253D4a95cab416d0a4d12ab58e8cfffb316a&ul_noapp=true

[Paul S.]

always possible that sellers who aren't overly conversant with current thinking as to attribution, might simply pick on names that are historically known to have produced vast quantities of pressed glass.        On the other hand it probably doesn't take much internet digging to at least see that for some quite long time Sowerby was assumed to be the maker, prior to the revised thinking of Moore.
If the clear example here is genuinely c. 1880, then certainly a very interesting find, and who knows - perhaps unique even.