Posted 6 years ago
IronLace
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These pressed glass hand vases were made by the Manchester firm John Derbyshire in around 1874. I have had the yellow pair for some time, & the green one has been on my "bucket list" for years, so I was most pleased to get one at last for a very reasonable price (because when they do turn up they tend to be ridiculously expensive).
Made from pressed glass with a moulded pattern of oak leaves & acorns in either yellow or green glass that contains uranium, the vases measure 21.3 cm tall, 6.8 cm across the scalloped top rim, & 9 cm across the hollow, footed base.
Double pleasure then.....wish fulfilled and didn't break the bank !
Absolutely, sklo42! The perfect indulgence! And it arrived in less than a week from the UK.
I did wonder whether I'd see it again here!
Ah, you saw it too! :-)
I snapped it up immediately. The price was right!
John Derbyshire - that was the name I was trying to remember who made a lovely uranium glass greyhound I saw last week in an Antiques shop!
It was a firm that made many wonderful figural pieces, AdeleC...some of the very best examples of Victorian pressed glass.
Learning again, I had never heard of John Derbyshire.
The things I don't know! Glad I don't know what I don't know...
Always happy to inform! :-)
I learned of the firm because of their hand vases, certainly an obscure enough reason! They get mentioned a bit in some books on vaseline glass as well. Believe me, I knew zip about Japanese glass until I encountered your extensive collection on CW! :-)