Salvador Bottle
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This item has hearsay provenance as being made by Salvador Ysart circa 1930. Formerly in the collections of Cyril Manley and then Ian Turner, it was featured within the Monart section of the 1978 "British Glass Between The Wars" exhibition at Broadfield House Glass Museum and illustrated (in monochrome) as catalogue number 75. I believe it was this bottle that was shown to Paul Ysart by Cyril Manley (they became good friends for many years) and was confirmed as being "Dad's work" (i.e. made by Salvador). In the exhibition catalogue it was listed as "Size VII, shape ZG". I do not fully agree with that since Monart shape ZG is an open-bodied Perfume Bottle, with only the stopper likely to be set with millefiori canes, and even then probably only four or five canes rather than full concentric rows. However, the profile of this Inkwell is very much in keeping with shape ZG which was no doubt the main inspiration for this and other millefiori Inkwells. I have seen three other Inkwells with distinctive, and very well set, blue and yellow striping to the neck and well portions. Each had the "flattened" ZG form of body profile. This form is also known in some of the Inkwells most likely from the Ysart Brothers years of 1946 to 1955. Overall height, including stopper: 10.7 cm (4 3/16 inch) |