Featured English silver mounted glass decanter -1901- who made the glass?

Several hours of polishing later (and still not done) ...

 

it may not need much more.....it looks rich now....

 

Just a few nooks and crannies where there are some ugly tarnish globs - overall I'm pretty pleased with where it's at.

 

LOVE the design on the glass .. the green squigles AND those lines from top to bottom ... Truly lovely !!! ... Joy.

 

I have seen English sterling mounted on Austrian art glass......just a thought!

 

Aaron, that is simply exquisite! Nice job!

 

ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS!!!!! (SO hard to squeak a word in edgewise!!)

 

Yup, we did import a fair bit of Bohemian glass and embellish it, gut feel is this one is local though. I still don't think it had a stopper, but a thumb lid is feasible. I also think it's for water. S&W is a thought.

 

There IS something across the bottom, but it is pretty UN-discernible....to me at least.....

 

Interesting! I hadn't noticed that - I'll have a closer look and see if there's anything discernible there! Thanks!

 

After a loupe look at the base - I think that image picked up on the pattern of the grinding/polishing of the pontil. Not visible at all unless in really bright light at a certain angle - Guess my photo set up "brought it to light".

 

Looks fabulous Aaron

 

So I was poking around looking at good glass houses. As always one query leads to something leads to something else.
Came up with a possible English glass maker.
You might want to see what you can find.

James Powell and Sons worked for Whitefriars.

Maybe @Ownedbybear has a book or other resourses on Whitefriars.

 

I have vast amounts of stuff about Whitefriars and about 500 pieces of it. I did consider them, but this isn't one of the known patterns. I'll go have a trawl through though, I most certainly don't know all the Powell stuff.

 

So, I had a trawl through Hajdamach's 20th C Glass, Andy McConnell's new Decanter book and my Big Expensive Whitefriars book. Nada. This thing is a puzzle: Powell did trailed glass, as did others, notably peacock trailed. But that's external not that internal trail which looks almost like a stretched millefiori.

Suggestion. Email Andy McConnell who is THE decanter person. His shop is called Glass Etc in Rye and he's also on Facebook. (He did pop up here a while back, too!)

 

Thanks so very much for taking the time to do all that! You've done so much to help me and I appreciate that so much. I will reach out to Andy as suggested

 

Tagging @Ownedbybear in case you didn't see this update since it was right before you posted.

Update - it was just suggested on the FB art glass group thread i started on this - that this is probably Webb "Filamanetosa". Here's another example where the decor I think matches mine just about exactly:

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/thomas-webb-filamentosa-vase-ca-1900-543175297

Although the attribution on that one is simply a "after much discussion this is what most people think it is" type attribution...

Other examples of filamentosa I'm seeing online have more of a draped appearance than the zig-zagginess on mine and the one above.

 

You're very welcome, it's a lovely thing.I like researching . I'll be interested to know what he says.

 

I got in touch with Andy and he kindly gave his opinion is that it's a claret jug, is complete as is, would not have had a lid or stopper, and as to the maker:

"I think Stevens & Williams, Stourbridge, around 1900. That is, rather than Thomas Webb, the only other firm that could have made it.

High-quality all-around with a good mount."

 

He's the Man, so I'd go with that.