Topic: Still trying to find the maker...Wedgwood/scandi?

[Quackers]

Hi, this is one of the items I listed a couple of weeks ago.  I have spent ages chasing it up on google and ebay and haven't found anything like it yet   Then at the Cambridge Glass Fair I saw a lady trying to identify a 12" amethyst version, one of the scandi specialists suggested that it was Wedgwood.  Has anyone got any ideas where I might be able to track it down?  Surely it isn't rare

http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-5050

[alexander]

My vote is for scandinavian..

I see a lot of bowls similar to this, several norwegian makers have
used variations on this kind of design, Hadeland and Magnor springs to mind.

The ones I've seen here haven't had a signature so that pretty much rules out Hadeland
unless theyre all seconds. If I'd had to venture a guess I'd pick Holmegaard or one of the swedish makers.

No signatures i presume?

[Pinkspoons]

If it were by Holmegaard, it would almost certainly be signed. The colour isn't one I'd readily associate with HG.

[Ivo]

I have a triangular one in moss green and that has finally been ascribed to Aseda ...

[Quackers]

Sorry for the delay in replying today - been a bit of a hectic one.  Holmegaard was suggested before and one of the dealers who looked at the bigger one on Sunday said definately not (and no, sorry but no signature).  I'd been wondering about Aseda, vidfletch might have seen it on whitefriars.com but he hasn't said anything there, I'll try asking him if he has seen anything like it.

I don't know Magnor - another name for me to learn more about!  Ivo - what is the base like on your Aseda triangular one please?

[Ivo]

Like most Aseda - polished smooth, no marks. We see the triangular green one quite a lot in Holland as it has been used by the postal services in a Christmas gift box somewhere early eighties, I believe. 

[nigel benson]

Hello,

It doesn't  appear in the King's Lynn or Wedgwood catalogues, nor is it in the catalogue for the exhibition held at King's Lynn.

By-the-by, all Magnor that I've seen is marked with a crudely incised factory name. (Note to self: Mind you, if you didn't know the whole range, you wouldn't recognise it unmarked would you?)

Nigel

[Quackers]

Thanks Ivo, I have yet to see any Aseda that isn't like that - but I always look/ask just in case 

Nigel - thanks for checking the KL/Wedgwood angle, it just seems too heavy for what little I know of their production so I wasn't that convinced about that  ID.

I've been looking at the Magnor range on their website, the current stuff seems quite variable but does include a couple of similar bowls, I wonder if they mark their seconds

[alexander]

Most of the Magnor artglass from the 50/60'ies wasn't signed by the artist or with a company mark.
There are examples of the crude "Magnor" inscription, which weren't, as far as I know, put there by policy.
More likely the piece was marked by someone at the factory or an outlet.
The crude incision mark is mentioned in "Moderne Antikviteter II" by Astrid Olsen published in 2002
and I also have a small candydish with this mark, cost a whopping 80 pence

Magnor artglass was signed with a paper label until the 70'ies.

The factory was started as an offshoot of swedish Eda in response to new trade rules between the
two countries.

I don't know if they mark their seconds, but they'll probably reply to an email inquery.

By the by - most norwegians speak and write reasonable english so emailing any norwegian
maker in english shouldn't be a prob.

[catshome]

Tim - Just spotted this on ebay 330090119685 and it reminded me of the shape and size of your bowl, although the pictures aren't great (theirs not yours!) you might be able to compare looking down on yours with the picture of theirs.  Not sure about their view of Murano, but another colour might help if it is the same as yours.  Cat