Collectors Facts - Jobling's 1054
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1934 Jobling catalogue showing their 1054 and 1054½ range ("suite")
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Shapes:
Bowl, low and cupped in shapes
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Colours:
Black amethyst
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The Jobling Discovery - with thanks to John & Loretta Nielsen and Steven Bateman
In Carnival Glass, The Magic and the Mystery (2nd Edition) we explained the story of The Wear Flint Glass Works factory and the history its successive owners, Greener & Co. and James A. Jobling, as well as information from the Nielsens on the first Carnival Glass that we are aware of bearing a Greener trademark. The piece in question is a Leaf and Grape low bowl and it is in vivid purple with a beautiful iridescence.
Now, courtesy of Steven Bateman, we are showing another iridised item from Greener/Jobling. Steven provided the above photos and explains that it is Jobling's 1054 pattern, and that “the base colour appears to be black amethyst, the iridescence is very fine and shows lovely gold and purple colours.”
In Carnival Glass, The Magic and the Mystery (2nd Edition) we explained the story of The Wear Flint Glass Works factory and the history its successive owners, Greener & Co. and James A. Jobling, as well as information from the Nielsens on the first Carnival Glass that we are aware of bearing a Greener trademark. The piece in question is a Leaf and Grape low bowl and it is in vivid purple with a beautiful iridescence.
Now, courtesy of Steven Bateman, we are showing another iridised item from Greener/Jobling. Steven provided the above photos and explains that it is Jobling's 1054 pattern, and that “the base colour appears to be black amethyst, the iridescence is very fine and shows lovely gold and purple colours.”
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Steven gives the dimensions as:
Diameter 103/8 (26.4 cm) Diameter of base 5¼ (13.3 cm) Height approx. 1 inch (2.54 cm) |
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A Jobling ad that was in the British Pottery Gazette in 1935 under the by-line "The dainty charm of British coloured Glass”, appears to illustrate on the top row, lleft, an iridised black amethyst 1054 bowl. The ad is shown on the right, courtesy of Steven Bateman. Steven’s discovery started us thinking! Somewhere tucked away in a box of glass we had a bowl that could be similar. We dug it out and were astonished to find that we did indeed have an example of Jobling’s 1054 pattern in iridized black amethyst. We had acquired the bowl some fifteen years or more ago, and we had no idea at the time who had made it so we packed it away. It is pictured at the top of the page. Thanks to Steven Bateman’s discovery and information we now have what is the second reported example of this fascinating piece. The dimensions of our bowl are: Diameter 8 inches (20.5cm) Diameter of base 5¾ inches (14.5cm) Height approx. 2¾ inches (7cm) See more Collectors Facts |
Jobling ad in the British Pottery Gazette in 1935
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