Steve/sewell
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I recently acquired this old colonial bowl.It is a product of the mid to late 1700s.The light apple green yellowy color of the glass is dead on as for being made in an early Southern New Jersey glass works either Wistarburgh in Alloway or the New Jersey Glass Manufactory in Glassboro.The pontil is very rough, pointed and steep in height into the bottom of the bowl very indicative of the early German influenced workmanship seen so often in the early years of our first established glass works.The walls of the bowl are very thin, but it has a very thick folded lip primarily for strength due to heavy use of the bowl.
The bowl is three inches tall and five and three quarter inches round at the folded lip and four and a half inches wide at the center portion .There is plenty of good base wear and it rests pretty evenly on any flat surface.There are a few small potstones scattered throughout the glass and there are no chips scratches or other imperfections anywhere else in the glass.There are horizontal swirl lines towards the top of the bowl but I have seen this same feature on other glass from this time period and it can be easily seen to be from the manufacturing process.The bowl was used as a utilitarian type as this design is seen quite often on all early bowls of this nature.If you see these for sale make sure this is good base wear,that they are thin walled and have a very rough pontil.There are copys of these type of bottles floating about our hobby but once you have the feel for what is old it is easy to spot a reproduction.
The bowl is three inches tall and five and three quarter inches round at the folded lip and four and a half inches wide at the center portion .There is plenty of good base wear and it rests pretty evenly on any flat surface.There are a few small potstones scattered throughout the glass and there are no chips scratches or other imperfections anywhere else in the glass.There are horizontal swirl lines towards the top of the bowl but I have seen this same feature on other glass from this time period and it can be easily seen to be from the manufacturing process.The bowl was used as a utilitarian type as this design is seen quite often on all early bowls of this nature.If you see these for sale make sure this is good base wear,that they are thin walled and have a very rough pontil.There are copys of these type of bottles floating about our hobby but once you have the feel for what is old it is easy to spot a reproduction.
