Steve/sewell
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Here is another pickup from a few months ago.This bowl was found in East Petersburg Pennsylvania 7 miles south of Manheim Pennsylvania.It was in the same family for the last 130 years.I have never seen a piece of fine dinner ware glass with the amount of potstones this bowl has.The color is a pretty dark cobalt blue.This color blue was one of the Stiegel manufactories favorite colors to use in the making of fine dinner ware as many pieces turn up in Lancaster county with this type of ribbing and in this color blue.The bowl is 2 and 1/8 inches tall,4 inches wide at the top of the rim and the footed base is 2 and 1/4 inches round.There is a swirled type pontil mark and the base is much heavier then the rest of the piece.Salts and jelly bowls were listed by Stiegel in numerous newspaper ads and in his own personal inventory lists in possession of the Manheim and Pennsylvania historical societies.
Stiegel made these to fill the void when the colonies revolted against the British Parliament because of the excessively high duties placed on English imported glass in the 1767 Townshend acts.This over taxing and the forbidding of the Colonies to manufacture there own wares fueled Stiegels manufacturing fires.Between the years 1768 and 1773 Stiegel produced a large amount of fine tableware that was eagerly purchased by the common citezenry.The English Counter parts to these are a smoother lighter in color blue glass with very little debris and potstones in the glass in comparison.The piece is 1765 to 1770 in manufacture and matches nicely to other Stiegel attributed pieces in collections all over the U.S.
Stiegel made these to fill the void when the colonies revolted against the British Parliament because of the excessively high duties placed on English imported glass in the 1767 Townshend acts.This over taxing and the forbidding of the Colonies to manufacture there own wares fueled Stiegels manufacturing fires.Between the years 1768 and 1773 Stiegel produced a large amount of fine tableware that was eagerly purchased by the common citezenry.The English Counter parts to these are a smoother lighter in color blue glass with very little debris and potstones in the glass in comparison.The piece is 1765 to 1770 in manufacture and matches nicely to other Stiegel attributed pieces in collections all over the U.S.
