Featured Please help me identify this item

There is a third one and yes they are the browny purple colour shown in the picture.

 

The 2nd picture is with a light shining on so the colour is clearer, under the muck. Do you think I should scrub it off?

 

Maybe @Ownedbybear recognizes it?

 

DO NOT SCRUB.

Are you anywhere near the Museum of London?

 

Take it to a museum. Buried that deep, always a chance it could be ancient. I agree with "do not scrub"!

 

It can take them a while to reply, but the Corning Museum of Glass has been very generous & helpful to me:

https://www.cmog.org/glass-questions

 

I’m an hour away from London so not too far. I never thought to take it into a museum

 

Thank you I will email to them

 

You'll do better with the MoL or even the V&A. The MoL has an amazing archive of British and London glass, both items and references. A few years ago, I'd have suggested asking the Stourbridge museum but it's a bit shut for now.

The Corning is excellent, but if you're in London, I'd go with a London authority. I'd also pop it over on some of the British glass Facebook pages. There's a couple of people there, to say the least, who are world leading. I've got some thoughts on this, but I'd really like to handle the thing before being conclusive. My suspicion is Monart, but others did stuff like this. Some much older.

Can you give a tiny hint as to roughly where it was found?

 

The quality of work on the handles (ears) is beyond average work. It took considerable skill to achieve them. Beyond that I have nothing to add.

 

Not that I expect he's around but it's worth a try. @Andy McConnell

Hard to tell from your photo but is that base from a mold?

 

Andy M is on the Brit FB pages, as are Nigel Benson and some other clever peeps.

Looks like handblown with a broken pontil to me. Monart - if it's them - did lovely quality. Vasart is another thought.

OP, how old is the property you found this in?

 

The V&A is swamped with requests, I am still waiting for an identification request which I sent in over a year ago. That was to a different department though, maybe the glass department is less overwhelmed.

 

I'm not suggesting Corning instead of other options, just as another resource for glass questions, particularly if the item might be old or unusual.

 

I have had a reply back from Andy m giving me an email address so will be sending him an email soon.

 

The building was built in early 1900’s in Plumstead area of London x

 

Having just come upon your more recent photos, I looked and thought - the condition of that glass looks like ancient Roman examples I have worked with. Looking at the overall shape, it does look like some medieval examples:

https://ancienttouch.com/early-medieval_byzantine_migration-period_glass.htm

Oddly, it also looks like a simple version of lamps used in Islamic mosques:

http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/e/europe-islamic-mediterranean/

It is definitely hand made. The irregular mark on the bottom is left by the pontil rod, used to manipulate the molten glass. It is unusual to find such a vessel intact, and it definitely merits some further research. I believe there is a system in England for reporting potentially important archaeological finds?