Featured Bristol Glass Vases?

Hi there! My local museum received these two vases as a donation, and I'm trying to confirm who made them, I believe they are Bristol glass and date to the early 1900s. Any additional information anyone could provide would be most helpful!

P.S. Ignore the number "2021.20.2" on the image at the bottom. That is a catalog number added by the museum.

 

Might I suggest @Ownedbybear takes a gander ?

 

I’m gandering.


I’d have thought bohemian or possibly French and early twentieth century.

 

Bristol they're not. Bristol glass is cobalt blue and older than these. These look to be machine-done in all respects, thus later.

 

Indeed, and Bristol is a horribly misused term too.

 

I've seen clam broth, pale blue, white etc glass marketed as Bristol. Even antique dealers who should know better do it. I managed to teach one, but that only leaves another 50,000 to go.

 

I appreciate the heads up! The website that pointed me towards Bristol was this one: https://kovels.com/antique-collectibles-prices/bristol. Everything on there looked to be made of similar material in a similar way to my vases.

 

Even Kovels is allowed to blow it once in a while. There's also an element of things being lost in translation - two countries separated by one language. Proper Bristol glass is best known in the UK. The Kovels book was written originally by Ralph and Terry Kovel, very American, and American dealers are apt to call some hand-decorated mold-blown pieces with pontils "Bristol" even when they're not.

 

Only Bristol I know's Bristol Cream Sherry,a few glasses of that and you'll confuse yer goldfish bowl with a chamberpot.

 

Mother's ruin, and I quite like a sweet sherry from time to time.

 

I"ve heard of it, but never seen any. I was always more the vodka type when I still bothered with alcohol.

 

I adore sherry, but it must be a decent fino, amontillado or maybe a manzanilla. And ice cold in a proper copita glass. I’ll take a fino oloroso too.

A lovely barman in Puerto de Santa Maria once lined up six different good sherries on the bar for my delectation.

 

Puerto de Santa Maria,Cadiz and Tomar are on our bucket list -Phoenicians,Templars and chilled sherry- win/win/win !

 

Cadiz is an absolutely lovely city. The light is astonishing. Marvellous fish market too.

 

When Jon was doing his two weeks Reserve Navy duty in Rota, Spain I flew over and spent a couple days in Madrid then he flew up and we went down to Cadiz. We toddled over to Jerez one day. Talk about some fine sherry!