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Article: Victorian glass and pottery
- Article from:
- Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK)
- Article date:
- June 14, 2008
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M ost Victorian coloured glass is cranberry, which makes the
lovely pair of glass jugs in a pale turquoise offered by All Our
Yesterdays at the Walronds antiques and collectors' fair in
Cullompton today all the more special.
With amber reeded glass handles, they stand 7in (18cm) tall when
asking pounds98, and an equally desirable Edwardian magazine rack
that swivels, in brass and oak, is pounds95.
Also here is a most unusual Victorian jug, reminiscent of the
ever-popular Victorian Staffordshire pottery spaniels, though this
example is porcelain with his mouth providing the spout. With a
cream body enhanced with gilt highlights and black pupils to his
eyes, this little fellow is 4.5in ...
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Article: Telltale signs of a genuine piece of Victoriana.(Features)
The Journal (Newcastle, England);
September 20, 2003 ;
582 words
... ... there is nothing to suggest a maker. It is, as I have already stated, well made. It could be someone like Minton's, Copeland, Spode or the like, who occasionally did not mark such things, but it is more likely to be a good but second-ranking maker ...
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