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Polly Posts: 1970 |
posted 04-11-2018 01:09 PM
  
Has anyone ever seen this fascinating pattern? To me it looks like it was inspired by a mummy. Gorham date mark L, for 1879, which is a bit late for Egyptian revival, though. IP: Logged |
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Polly Posts: 1970 |
posted 04-11-2018 01:11 PM
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Polly Posts: 1970 |
posted 04-11-2018 01:12 PM
It just arrived and I need to polish it, but I was so excited I couldn't wait to post. TJ and Rob, I feel like you in particular will both enjoy this set. IP: Logged |
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Scott Martin Forum Master Posts: 11520 |
posted 04-11-2018 01:26 PM
First time for me. Wonderful!! IP: Logged |
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Polly Posts: 1970 |
posted 04-11-2018 04:50 PM
What do you think it's supposed to represent? Mummy? Bandage? Turban? The antique equivalent of bubble wrap? IP: Logged |
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Scott Martin Forum Master Posts: 11520 |
posted 04-11-2018 05:43 PM
I don't know but your "mummy wrap" works for me. Using "mummy wrap", I found:  IP: Logged |
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June Martin Forum Master Posts: 1326 |
posted 04-11-2018 05:58 PM
It reminds me of a basket weave. In the far reaches of my memory, I seem to recall a piece of Tiffany holloware with a basket weave motif mimicking an American Indian basket; I think it may have been from one of the World's Fairs exhibitions. IP: Logged |
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June Martin Forum Master Posts: 1326 |
posted 04-11-2018 06:27 PM
It's the Tiffany Pueblo bowl I was thinking of. Though not exactly a basket weave, it was Tiffany's interpretation of a Pueblo water basket made in 1893 for display at the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition. IP: Logged |
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Polly Posts: 1970 |
posted 04-11-2018 08:04 PM
"Basket" has been suggested, but I think the strips look more like strips of cloth than of straw, wood, grass, bark, bamboo, etc. If you look at the close-up of the cream pitcher, you'll see they have a carefully applied texture that looks to me like woven cloth. And the strips go round and round, unlike baskets, which are generally woven in one layer. This really looks like a mummy's wrapping to me. But who would want mummy-wrapped hollowware for cream and sugar? So odd! How I WISH I had that time machine, so I could ask what the designer had in mind. IP: Logged |
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asheland Posts: 935 |
posted 04-12-2018 12:24 PM
Splendid pieces! It does look like a mummy wrapping!  It also appears to be hand-done, Gorham is awesome. IP: Logged |
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asheland Posts: 935 |
posted 04-12-2018 12:25 PM
And no, I've never seen this particular pattern, but it certainly looks right for the aesthetic period of the late 70's and early 80's IP: Logged |
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dragonflywink Posts: 993 |
posted 04-15-2018 08:48 PM
So cool! Carpenter shows some similar trompe l'oeil pieces from the same time period, 'Whimsey and Fantasy', pages 117-118, plates 113-117 in my old first edition... ~Cheryl [This message has been edited by dragonflywink (edited 04-15-2018).] IP: Logged |
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Polly Posts: 1970 |
posted 04-16-2018 08:53 PM
Cheryl, I recently got a copy of that book. I love it! So informative! Though it's pretty dismissive of "Whimsy and fantasy," calling the style kitsch. IP: Logged |
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Polly Posts: 1970 |
posted 10-10-2018 11:26 PM
Popping in months later to say I'm now convinced this set was inspired by similar pieces made in Russia in imitation of kvass jugs wrapped in birch bark. IP: Logged |
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asheland Posts: 935 |
posted 10-11-2018 11:03 AM
The Russians made some splendid Aesthetic pieces in the 80's! IP: Logged |
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