Topic: Engraved Jug with Scary Baby, Dancers and Angels

[flying free]

Could you enlarge your photos to 600 x 400 pixels so the detail of the folded foot etc and the shape of the ewer can be seen more clearly please?

[ckscot]

Gosh, that is brilliant sleuthing indeed! I now have a whole new field to start exploring.
I had the same uneasy feeling about changelings and disability. But I like the idea that this set might have been given to ward off evil spirits. That seems sadly appropriate in these strange days.

[NevB]

I think the waffle iron is a lantern, you can just see the small lines depicting rays of light. A pity because a waffle iron would have been much better.

[ckscot]

Sorry, I missed the post about resizing last night. I'm having real trouble resizing.  I'm doing it using Preview on my Mac, which is giving me very misleading idea of how big the files are.  Even setting the size at 300x 400 pixels this site is saying my file is too big   But Here is a new  photo that that I have managed to shrink sufficiently.  It shows the overall shape more clearly. And yes, sadly, the waffle iron is indeed a lantern.

[flying free]

Willliam Blake did a painting called Oberon, Titania and Puck with fairies dancing and other of his paintings come up in a similar style - that weird light effect etc.

https://www.william-blake.org/Oberon-Titania-And-Puck-With-Fairies-Dancing.html

The baby has a face like Puck 

[chopin-liszt]

Did you see the link ekimp gave earlier, m? - scroll down a little and it's exactly the same beastie-baby as depicted. Not just a bit alike.

http://www.fairyist.com/tag/fairy-questions/page/2/

[flying free]

Hi Sue 

Yes I did. However, that set me wondering where, in turn, that depiction may have been inspired from.  That thought process took me back to William Blake's painting.  I know .... convoluted 

[flying free]

So the jug and goblet both have a folded foot.

The glass looks clear and I don't think they are that old. Anyone agree?
Perhaps they were studio made and then engraved?

I was thinking about Royal Brierley or something as well,  but the folded foot doesn't seem right really.
Again,just thinking out loud - please step in and disagree

[chopin-liszt]

The images got me onto Margaret MacDonald etc., then I got a bit lost in Benjamin Britten's Midsummer Night's Dream costumes and the depiction of Puck there, and then his confusion with Bacchus in legend. Not to Blake. Yet.

I'm not at all sure about age myself. I can't help but be reminded a little bit of the Alison Kinnaird Storm Lantern, which was done in the early '70s.

https://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,37022.msg202066.html#msg202066

[flying free]

I love it when the Storm Lantern gets another outing