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Author Topic: Flared glass with faceted ball knop  (Read 534 times)

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Offline Bernard C

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Flared glass with faceted ball knop
« on: May 03, 2014, 08:40:50 AM »
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H. 5½" 14cm, w. 4oz 113g.

This is a large capacity glass neatly flake cut down to the foot, with a faceted ball knop, and neatly ground out and polished pontil scar.

Is it for a drink, or for a sweet like syllabub?

Any information on date, origin, and purpose welcomed.

Thanks for your interest,

Bernard C.  8)
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Offline Paul S.

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Re: Flared glass with faceted ball knop
« Reply #1 on: May 03, 2014, 09:59:32 AM »
faceted ball knops seem to be less than common - at least on what I assume is a wine glass  -  here's another which may have been broken and re-joined with a twist - and this is about 5" tall.         Virtually all of these trumpet shaped bowls are slice cut to some extent - whether they have an everted rim or not - the drawn shank/stem is ideal for this sort of decoration.
Faceted knops occur on some ABP glasses, also often on those tall colourful cased hock glasses from S. & W. and VSL and probably many other factories.

Nothing to do with syllabub as far as I'm aware, and always possible that technically this might be described as a wine flute.
Historically, everted rims seem to have been common on bell bowls in the first half of the C18, but far less common on trumpets and funnels, although of course this piece is more modern than that.

Could be wrong, but I'd suggest that in view of the decorative faceted knop then this piece would date to the late C19 or equally the first half of the C20, and the amount of wear might possibly help with that.
As to origin, really not possibly to say  -  the rim might indicate the Continent.

As you'll know Bernard, such pieces usually defy precise provenance/attribution  - but that doesn't mean we can't say something about them, and hope you get to use it.

These are my opinions only  -  let's see what others think. :)   

 

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