Posted 4 years ago
NevB
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This is a Sowerby 2370 Essex 8 1/2" fruit bowl and four 2416 Sundae/Ice dishes bought at a local sale. These appear in their 1933 catalogue (20thcenturyglass website) and seem to be sold separately so there may have been more sundae dishes originally.
Thanks keramikos, there doesn't seem to be much of this pattern around nowadays, perhaps it wasn't so popular because it wasn't sold as a set or they didn't advertise it so much. The catalogue pictures aren't very good but they have proved very useful in the past.
I posted some like this a year ago, but I thought they were Davidson grapefruit dishes! I’ll have to dig them out and look at them again.
Adele, I hope I've identified them correctly as the catalogues are not very clear. The opensalts.us website has a Sowerby catalogue which calls them "ice dishes".
keramikos, I think the servers are probably Czech, pressglas-pavillon has a set the same in the unknown section of their knives, forks and spoons. I also have a Stolzle set in one of my early posts with a four-tine fork.
I've just noticed the bowl is in the 1927 Sowerby catalogue as part of the Service 2370 (not Essex) but I can't tell if they are part frosted. The dishes are there as 2416 Ice Dishes and the Davidson 249 1/2 dishes from 1940 look identical, perhaps they used the same moulds.
I saw your post re the other comport dishes and you set me off chasing patterns and ideas. Davidson are from my Birthplace {Gateshead] and I have always gravitated towards their products but then I recalled our pressed glass comport which has always been a mystery so I have this morning posted it in show and tell
Can you help ? https://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/280454-pressed-glass-comport----help
Hello Dave_Sandra. I'm no expert but your compote doesn't look typically Davidson or indeed British and I don't recognise the pattern although someone else might. It's more likely to be continental, Czech or German? I did have a quick look on the pressglas-pavillon.de website but didn't find anything, it's easier if you have the piece in front of you. Best of luck in your search.