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 I have set up this web page to enable newly found information to be shared about Glass Float Bowl Sets and other  glass related items of interest.
 Comments are most welcomed.

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BOY ON A FISH figural flower frog

2/4/2022

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BOY ON A FISH  figural flower frog. 
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​It is 20.2cm (8 inches) high x 14cm (5½ inches) in diameter in one piece.
Seen in crystal, amber, green, blue and pink in a frosted finish.
​The Maker and Country of Origin is unknown at this point in time.
​26/10/2022 Update
Now seen in Opalescent which is  EXTREMLY RARE. 
A collector from Wales in the UK has made a very interesting observation which prompts the following question;
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Has the company who made this figural flower frog drawn inspiration from a publication called, The Water Boy’s Visit to the Sea Fairy by Albert Edward Jackson 1922?
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Pictured below is an illustration from this publication.
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BOY ON A FISH float bowl set
​The bowl is 33cm (13 inches) in diameter. 
Seen in crystal, amber, green, blue and pink in a clear and frosted  finish,now seen in an Opalescent 
The figural flower frog is seen with several different shaped and patterned bowls which are possibly made by the same maker. 

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26/10/2022 Update 
OPALESCENT Boy on a fish flower float bowl set.
EXTREMLY RARE
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The bowl is 28cm (11 inches ) in diameter x 10cm (4 inches) high.
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The pictures of the Opalescent flower float bowl set has been kindly provided by a collector from the Netherlands.

Should you know of a catalogue that can confirm the Maker and Country of Origin please let me know.
I can be contacted at gfbsets@gmail.com
Neil Cooper
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GIRL ON A TORTOISE figural flower frog

2/4/2022

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GIRL ON A TORTOISE figural flower frog.
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It is 17 cm (6¾inches) high x 15cm (6inches) in diameter in one piece.
​Seen in crystal, amber, green, blue and pink in a frosted finish.
​The maker and Country of Origin is unknown at this point in time. 
A collector from Wales in the UK has made a very interesting observation which prompts the following question;
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Has the company who made this figural flower frog drawn inspiration from a publication called Old French Fairy Tale by Comtesse De Segur 1920.
Pictured below is an illustration from this publication.
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GIRL ON A TORTOISE float bowl set 
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The bowl is 32cm (12½ inches ) in diameter.
Seen in crystal, amber, green, blue and pink in a clear and frosted finish.
The flower frog is seen with different shaped and patterned bowls possibly made by the same maker. 
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​Should you know of a catalogue that can confirm the Maker and Country of Origin please let me know.
I can be contacted at gfbsets@gmail.com
Neil Cooper
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The Bather (CN) table center piece

21/2/2022

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The Bather (CN) table center piece 
It is 21.5 cm (8½ inches) high in three pieces.
The Maker and Country of Origin is unknown at this point in time.

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The mirror is 30.5.cm (12inches) in diameter.
The figurines are seen in crystal, amber, green, blue and pink in clear and frosted finish, also seen in black.
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The plinth on which the mirror and figurine sit is 9cm ( 3½ inches) high.
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The pictures and measurements have been kindly given by a collector from Wales in the United Kingdom 
The name of this set includes the letters (CN) in brackets which indicates the set has been named by this collector.
​The painting pictured below is the inspiration for the naming of the set by the collector.
​La Baigneuse " (Bather) or "Au Crepuscule" (at Dusk) 
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A glass catalogue needs to be seen to confirm the Maker and Country of Origin, should you have or know of one please contact me.
I can be contacted at gfbsets@gmail.com
​Neil Cooper
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PARAKEETS glass panels.

12/2/2022

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PARAKEETS glass panel.
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Said to be made during  1920's - 1930's
They measure 25.5cm (10⅛ inches) x 20cm (7⅞ inches).
Seen in opalescent, crystal, green and pink other colours likely are amber and blue.
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The panel below has been photographed from the reverse side.
Note the birds are about face.
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These panels have been attributed to Josef Riedel Company
a Czechoslovakian company, however the maker is yet to be
confirmed.
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A glass catalogue  needs to be seen to confirm the Maker and Country of Origin, should you have or know of one please contact me.
​I can be contacted at gfbsets@gmail.com
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​Neil Cooper
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SOPHIA desk lamp

22/1/2022

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SOPHIA (AN) desk lamp.

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It is 32cm (12⅝ inches)high in four pieces.
The four pieces are (1)lamp base, (2)metal bracket with lamp holder, (3)fan shaped lamp shade and (4)figurine
Seen in crystal in a frosted finish, other colours likely are amber, green, blue and pink.
Should you have or know of a SOPHIA desk lamp in a another colour please let me know.

​Whilst this desk lamp is said to have been made by Brockwitz Glass a German Company this is yet to be confirmed.
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​A glass catalogue needs to be seen to confirm the Maker and Country of Origin, should you know of one please contact me.
​I can be contacted at gfbsets@gmail.com
26/1/2022
Lamp seen with a different shaped base 
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​The SOPHIA (AN) figurine seen with these lamps are known to have been made by Brockwitz Glass a
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​The SOPHIA (AN) flower float bowl set pictured below is seen in a Brockwitz Glass 1936 catalogue, and listed as Bowl with Flower Block and Figurine number 48900.
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SOPHIA OPALESCENT figurine on a marble stand
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Neil Cooper 
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KOOKABURRA wall light, lamp shade made by Bagley Glass a  British Company.

6/1/2022

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It is 9½ inches (24cm) high x 7½ inches (19 cm) at its widest.
Seen in green in a frosted finish other colours possible are crystal, amber, blue and pink. 
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Rear view.
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Side view
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 Top view
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This lamp shade turns a brilliant green colour when exposed to a Ultra Violet light source, indicating that Uranium Oxide had been added to the raw materials in the glass making process and it is reported to be harmless. 
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The pictures above and measurements have been kindly supplied by a collector from New Zealand.

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Pictured below is a KOOKABURRA wall lamp set and accompanying text as seen on page 123 of the publication about Bagley Glass by Angela Bowey, Derek and Betty Parsons  2004.
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8/1/2022
KOOKABURRA Wall Lamp set
It made up of two pieces a wall mounting bracket with light fitting and lamp shade.
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The picture above was kindly supplied by a collector from South Australia.
25/7/2022
The pictures below have been kindly supplied by a collector from Tamworth  New South Wales  Australia.
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​Should you have or know of other examples of this Wall Lamp please let me know.
I can be contacted at gfbsets@gmail.com
​Neil Cooper ​
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CARPE figural flower frog and float bowl.

28/11/2021

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CARPE flower frog
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The underside of this flower frog pictured below
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​​It is 17cm (8¾ inches) high x 12cm(4¾ inches)in diameter at its widest point in one piece, reducing to 10cm ( 4 inches) in diameter at its base.
Seen in blue and pink with a frosted finish, other colours likely are crystal, amber and green.
Prior to this article this flower frog I had only seen it in blue, as seen in the Archivd article dated July 2021. >
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​The Maker and Country of Origin is yet to be confirmed.
Should you know of a catalogue that can confirm the Maker and Country of Origin please let me know at gfbsets@gmail.com
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The collector who owns this flower frog has married it with a float bowl of an unknow Maker and Country of Origin pictured below.
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The pictures above have been kindly provided by a collector from West York Shire in the UK.
Should you have or know of one in another colours and a catalogue to confirm the Makers and Country of Origin please let me know.
I can be contacted at gfbsets@gmail.com


Neil Cooper
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VENUS  Figural Flower Frog  made by Rosice Glass who were a Czechoslovakian  company.

24/9/2021

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VENUS (AN) figural flower frog.
Venus is the Roman goddess of love, beauty, prosperity, fertility, and victory.

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It is 22cm ( 8¾ inches) high in one piece.
Seen in pink other colours likely are crystal, amber, green, blue and opalescent in a clear and frosted finish.  

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The VENUS figurine is seen on page 22 of a ROSICE 1958 catalogue pictured below, figurine#1938.
It is 16cm (6¼inches) high.
​The 5.3cm(2⅛ inch) diameter spigot under the base of this figurine may fit into the center of the flower frog ring #2365.
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The Figural Vase Set sketch below is not seen in any of the Rosice catalogues that I know of. 
I have made this mock up picture using cut and paste.
​It may be possible for this figurine to fit into the center hole in the flower frog ring to make this set.
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                                             VENUS figurine
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                                                Flower frog ring
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                                                            Vase
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If you have these items in your collection, why not check them out to see if they will make up this figural vase set, please let me know the outcome. 
​​I can be contacted at gfbsets@gmail.com
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​There are more figural flower vase sets to be seen by clicking  on the Archivd articles dated​ April 2016 and July 2017 at the beginning of the blog.

Neil Cooper
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STUMP LADY Bowl Set Country of Origin Update

23/9/2021

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The Bowl Set pictured above is the smallest of the Stump Lady Bowl Sets that are known to have been made.
It has always been believed to have been made by the Sowerby Glass Works but never confirmed. This company was located in Gateshead, Northumberland, England.
 
Several years ago I came across one of these Bowl Sets with a
MADE IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA label attached.

This label has raised the questions of who made these sets and where were they made?  
 
Recently a Czechoslovakian Glassexport  Before 1958 Catalogue was sent to me by a Glass Collector who lives in Victoria, Australia.
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It appears that more than one Glass Companies glassware is represented in this catalogue.

​On page 36 of this catalogue is a picture of a Stump Lady Bowl Set numbered SE/2765a 
I have included this page below.
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The company who made these sets is unknown at this point in time,  however we can confirm that they were made in Czechoslovakia.
Neil Cooper
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CARPE KOI night light  by PIERRE D'AVESN a French Art Glass Designer

27/8/2021

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 CARPE KOI Night Light 
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​​It is 23cm(8 inches) high x 14cm (5⅝)wide x 7cm(2⅞)inches in depth.
​Seen in blue with a frosted finish.
Should you have one or know of one in another colour  please contact me.
​I can be contacted at gfbsets@gmail.com
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​Brass Lamp fitting for illumination.
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 P D' AVESN  FRANCE  is visible on the rim of the lamp shade.

​Pierre D'Avesn  1901-1990 
It is said that from the young age of 14 he worked for Ren'e Lalique  a famous French Art Glass designer.
He left Lalique in 1926 to start up his own design studio.
His designes were  produced by Cristallerie de Saint-Rémy.
In 1930 Daum Freres approached Pierre d'Avesn to take over the artistic direction of their molded glass department, at the
glass-works in Croismare.
This affiliation lasted up until the strike of 1936.
From 1937 to 1940 he took over the management of Verly's.
​While working for Daum & Verlys, Pierre D’avesn’s personal designs were allows to bear his signature unlike when he was working at Lalique.

From 1940, he returned to working on his own.
​His designs were then produced by Cristallerie de Choisy-le-Roi- (Sèvres).
 
Piere D' Avesn is up there standing shoulder to shoulder with  other famous French Art Glass designers.
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To see some of his other amazing designs check out the Archivd article list dated November 2018 >.
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​I can be contacted at gfbsets@gmail.com
Neil Cooper
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    I have been collecting glass float bowl sets since 1999.
    I have written a collectors guide called "Pressed Glass Figural Flower Float Bowl Sets A Collectors Guide
    2014"

    To view sample pages of the collectors guide click on "Book Sample Pages" above.

    To purchase a copy of my book please contact me at gfbsets@gmail.com 

    Cost per book is AU$35.00 + P&P with tracking AU$7.00 = AU$42.00 within Australia using Bank Direct Deposit.

    Other methods for purchase and payment considered by arrangement.

     It is also available on ebay by clicking on the My Book on  eBay button  above.

     This publication can als0 be purchased from the
     West Virginia Museum Of American Glass
    230 Main Avenue
    Weston
    WV 26452
    United States
    Phone: +1 304-269-5006

      Neil Cooper




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