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shop window: pre-War glass (page 4 of 4)
Click on any photo to see it full size, then click the 'back' arrow of your browser to return here A particularly pretty Stuart pot from the 1920s or 1930s, the lid cut to accomodate a spoon. This pot is hand-enamelled with butterflies and tulips. Again, the base is acid-etched 'Stuart' and 'ENGLAND ' (see photo at lower right)
Click on any photo to see it full size, then click the 'back' arrow of your browser to return here A Powell wave-ribbed 'tumbler' vase in 'gold amber' glass, the shape (pattern 8473) designed by Marriott Powell in 1938. Production of these vases continued until 1970, so it may be post-War There are a couple of small bubbles in the glass toward the rim on one side, shown in the detail below, the smaller bubble at left being open, and the vase is priced accordingly
Click on any photo to see it full size, then click the 'back' arrow of your browser to return here A wonderful Façon de Venise double-gourd shaped vase, the body cased clear over blue, pink, and white murrhine sections, over a white interior, and with an applied clear foot ring. Although clearly intended to resemble Venetian glassware, it was almost certainly actually made in either France or Belgium, in about the 1860s or 70s
Click on any photo to see it full size, then click the 'back' arrow of your browser to return here A Kralik pearl-iridescent vase, with dip-moulded ribbed body, the interior shading to a brownish pink at the rim. We've had this type in lilac before
Click on any photo to see it full size, then click the 'back' arrow of your browser to return here A tall and slender 'solifleur' vase (shown very much smaller than life-sized in the photos above) circa 1900, beautifully hand-enamelled and -gilded with fruiting vines. The glossy enamels of the grapes and vine-leaves are typically French The vase is in generally good condition, but has a slight 'bloom' to the interior (visible in the detail above, right). This could be removed by an experienced glass restorer
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