Topic: Sowerby and other glass pattern books

[MHT]

I have added a new page to my website which includes Sowerby pattern books from 1874 to 1960, other pattern books and a few more interesting items.

Please visit: www.victorianpressedglass.com/sowerby_archive.htm


Mike

[Anne]

Brilliant, thank you Mike, such a useful collection. 
PS I still owe you an email reply re the pattern books, I'll be in touch very soon.

[NevB]

An excellent start, Book V, P.15, shows my No.689 9" candlestick.

[NevB]

And on the same page my No.692 Chamber candlesticks.

[NevB]

And my No.1032 Can 

[NevB]

And even more interesting the No.733 Vase on P.50, very often described as Henry Greener.

https://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,69895.0.html

[neilh]

A spectacular addition to 19th century British glass research... well done!

[flying free]

Mike thank you so much for your generosity in sharing these.  A fantastic resource and having looked at them on another thread Nev linked,  the ones I've seen are fantastic drawings.  A real pleasure to see.

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[neilh]

This has answered one puzzle. In 1881 Molineaux Webb launched the Duchess set, and there was what looked like a competing pattern seen rather more frequently which I knew had to be northeast from the density readings, but I didn't know who made it. I see it in the 1922 Sowerby pattern book as pattern 2390, very surprised it was so much later.

[MHT]

Page 24 in Cottle states "The earliest surviving book of Sowerby designs, a short suppliment to Book V, dates from May 1874".
This shows that the the main part Book V from the archive was never lent to the Laign Art Gallery. Not really surprising as there is no cover and it is very flimsy.
The pattern book shows Sowerby's diverse production of glass at that date. Does anyone have an opium lamp? (page 33).