Steve/sewell
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I picked this up last year at a local estate sale in Woodstown New Jersey.The bowl is an inch and three quarters tall by three and one half inches wide.It has a rough pontil and a folded lip seen often on pieces dating from the mid to late 1700s.There are 4 sizeable potstones located in the ribbing on the sides with probably fifty more smaller specs of potstones scattered though out the bowl. The design of the bowl tells me it was entered quite often because of how sturdy and how heavy the glass is around the folded lip.It is rolled over as to not allow the fingers to come in contact with a rough area or had it not been rolled but flared it would have been much more apt to break in daily use.Ribbing although decorative was used first for strength in glass more so then for appearance.There is good base wear on three areas of high points on the bottom.
This is an end of day piece not the daily production of the gaffer who made it.I have in my collection a number of end of day pieces and the one trait that is always true on virtually all these is the amount of debris and potstones found in the glass.Sure potstones can form at any time but just like any vitrified liquid glass is no different and the solid debris not mixed properly would settle to the bottom of the batch for that day.I will bet you just about every talented gaffer made whimsical type devices at the end of every batch each and every day.The color of the bowl is very consistent with glass from here in Southern New Jersey.The lighter more yellow in the color glass on this bowl resembles Wistarburgh more then the Glassboro Stangers glass works but the piece could have come from either works.
This is an end of day piece not the daily production of the gaffer who made it.I have in my collection a number of end of day pieces and the one trait that is always true on virtually all these is the amount of debris and potstones found in the glass.Sure potstones can form at any time but just like any vitrified liquid glass is no different and the solid debris not mixed properly would settle to the bottom of the batch for that day.I will bet you just about every talented gaffer made whimsical type devices at the end of every batch each and every day.The color of the bowl is very consistent with glass from here in Southern New Jersey.The lighter more yellow in the color glass on this bowl resembles Wistarburgh more then the Glassboro Stangers glass works but the piece could have come from either works.
