Steve/sewell
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Here are two end of day glass products and a flint jelly table ware bowl.
The loving mug is made from the bottom batch of bottle glass and is loaded with potstones
and other glass impurities usually associated with the bottom batch of glass.I am estimating
the piece to be from the late 1790s to 1820.This is a rare glass whimsey and could have been
made by a glass gaffer as a gift for his wife or daughter or other family members who may have
been just married.The attached handles are hollow in manufacture.The base has an attached footed
disk with a large pontil mark.The loving mugs through out history are usually associated with some sort
of achievement. This particular piece was well taken care of suggesting it might have been a
family heirloom of some sort.
The vase might be the oldest as the footed base folded rim and attached thumb rests suggest
the 1760 to 1780 time period of manufacture.It is made in the very familiar South Jersey yellow
green glass. Again this piece was an end of day product as vases like this were never part
of production in an early glass works The vase stands slightly crooked as the footed base pedastal
collapsed slightly on one side.This only adds charm to the vase as there are no other glass conditions
to report about.On the base the vase has a rough pontil with the gall in it usually associated with
Wistarburgh.You can tell the vase was well taken care of also as other then a few small potstones
the glass is in near perfect condition.
The last item is a finely manufactured flint glass jelly type of bowl.The piece rings nicley when tapped
with a hard object.The base has a tiered attached foot and pedastal design and a rough pontil mark.
Where the bowl attaches to the base stand there is glass gadrooning almost like a lily pad design.
I am estimating this piece again as colonial American in Manufacture 1770 to 1790.
It is heavy comparativley to glass in similar size.As in most flint glass there very few imperfections
in the glass as this being one of the reasons flint glass was chosen for the manufacture higher end tableware.
Although the glass resembles wine glasses of the same era it is too large (5 inches) in diameter across the
top to be a sipping glass of any type.Thoughts from others on all three would be appreciated.
The loving mug is made from the bottom batch of bottle glass and is loaded with potstones
and other glass impurities usually associated with the bottom batch of glass.I am estimating
the piece to be from the late 1790s to 1820.This is a rare glass whimsey and could have been
made by a glass gaffer as a gift for his wife or daughter or other family members who may have
been just married.The attached handles are hollow in manufacture.The base has an attached footed
disk with a large pontil mark.The loving mugs through out history are usually associated with some sort
of achievement. This particular piece was well taken care of suggesting it might have been a
family heirloom of some sort.
The vase might be the oldest as the footed base folded rim and attached thumb rests suggest
the 1760 to 1780 time period of manufacture.It is made in the very familiar South Jersey yellow
green glass. Again this piece was an end of day product as vases like this were never part
of production in an early glass works The vase stands slightly crooked as the footed base pedastal
collapsed slightly on one side.This only adds charm to the vase as there are no other glass conditions
to report about.On the base the vase has a rough pontil with the gall in it usually associated with
Wistarburgh.You can tell the vase was well taken care of also as other then a few small potstones
the glass is in near perfect condition.
The last item is a finely manufactured flint glass jelly type of bowl.The piece rings nicley when tapped
with a hard object.The base has a tiered attached foot and pedastal design and a rough pontil mark.
Where the bowl attaches to the base stand there is glass gadrooning almost like a lily pad design.
I am estimating this piece again as colonial American in Manufacture 1770 to 1790.
It is heavy comparativley to glass in similar size.As in most flint glass there very few imperfections
in the glass as this being one of the reasons flint glass was chosen for the manufacture higher end tableware.
Although the glass resembles wine glasses of the same era it is too large (5 inches) in diameter across the
top to be a sipping glass of any type.Thoughts from others on all three would be appreciated.
