Remind me not to eat anything you cook, af. ;) Yup, spice holder.
Vase gets my vote. I wonder if this isn't culinary, but part of a dressing table set.
No photo, sweetie. ;)
If it were civic, I'd not expect a retailers' mark, though. You could always ask Portsmouth City Council's archivist, they've got a pretty decent...
That is a rather nice piece of Murano made sommerso, indeed. I've a couple of rather similar ones. Hard to attribute to a particular factory.
Late 19th, I should think. Possibly English, but so many did this sort of thing.
Victorian Egyptian Revival, 19th C, rather than the later. Nice thing.
I was a tad pleased. ;) It's sun ray yellow flambe glaze, as far as I can make out. 1930s-ish backstamp. Not as massively valuable as some of...
I'm afraid they don't do all that well here either. I think Martin would do best to sell this via one of the RSPCA's shops.
Cerium oxide paste might do it - available on Ebay.
The hat is Kurdish, the waiter looks Turkish and the whole thing shouts Middle Eastern, including that pipe affair. Coffee, not tea. And isn't...
Andy McConnell and Mark Hill have both written about photographing glass and are superb at it. Let me see if I can find the articles.
Here you go. The little one was bought in Spain about five years back, the bigger one over here. And just for fun, a rather nice genuinely...
I'll go take pics of the the ones I can get at in the garden. ;)
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