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Blue Cloud Glass |
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Davidson introduced Blue Cloud in 1925. In the buyer's notes for November 1925, the
Pottery Gazette wrote:
“The colour most
recently introduced by G. Davidson & Co. is known as Blue Cloud. It
follows the general lines of the Purple Cloud to which we called the attention
of our readers on a previous visit to the firm's show rooms, and it is proving
a very worthy contemporary. In flower bowls and vases it shows up to
particularly good effect, and probably the treatment will be extended a little
later on to goblets, candle sticks and other items, as in the case of earlier
colours”
Blue Cloud glass
consists of purple trails on a pale blue background. It was produced in the same
patterns as Purple and Amber Cloud. Blue Cloud is probably not as common as
Purple Cloud if current availability is used as a guide, however, it does
produce a more pleasing affect. Blue Cloud Flower Bowls were sold with matching
flower blocks and stands.
Like other Cloud Colours, most pieces have a polished and a matt
surface. Pieces which are matt or polished on all surfaces are much rarer.
Blue Cloud Glass production ended in 1934.
In that year only a very few pieces were made. 1932 was the last year that
significant quantities of Blue Cloud Glass were made. |
Recently
some examples of another form of Blue Cloud Glass by Davidson have appeared.
These have blue trails on a matt flint base. The blue is unlike both the
Cobalt Blue made by S Reich & Co. (see below) and the blue in normal Blue
Cloud Glass. This suggests that this 'Clear Blue Cloud Glass' may have been
made in the 1960s. We know that some Purple Cloud was made in the 1960s by
Davidson, so it is possible they tried blue as well. To date the only known
examples of this newly described form of Blue Cloud are two No 20 bowls and
a 283 sugar. |
The
Czechoslovakian company S Reich & Co produced a small range of items in a
variety of Cloud Glass including Cobalt Blue. The most commonly found styles
are a chamber stick and a small trinket set. Cobalt Blue Cloud has trails of
Blue on a clear flint base. Cobalt Blue Cloud designs are rare. |
A selection of other Blue Cloud pieces
can be seen in the following pictures.
 


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(c) Chris and Val Stewart 2001/2003 |
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