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Title: CLOVER SHAPED GLASS
Post by: benebarker on February 09, 2006, 08:59:52 PM
I am hoping that someone might help me identify my glass by description. I have a drinking glass that is approximately 5 1/5" high and is in the shape of a clover- though the four "petals" are sort of squared-off.  It is opalescent glass with two gold stripes along the rim. I believe it is 19th C though unsure. Any advise is much appreciated. If you'd like to e-mail an address I can send a photo. benebarker@aol.com
Title: CLOVER SHAPED GLASS
Post by: Della on February 10, 2006, 06:58:08 PM
Here are the photos of benebarker's glass.

(http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/albums/userpics/10026/thumb_ben.JPG) (http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-1003)(http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/albums/userpics/10026/thumb_ben1.JPG) (http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-1002)(http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/albums/userpics/10026/thumb_ben2.JPG) (http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-1001)
Click on images to enlarge.

Hope someone can help him.  :lol:
Title: Re: CLOVER SHAPED GLASS
Post by: aa on February 12, 2006, 04:58:37 PM
Quote from: "benebarker"
.I believe it is 19th C though unsure.


What makes you think it is 19th Century?
Title: CLOVER SHAPED GLASS
Post by: benebarker on February 12, 2006, 05:39:30 PM
It came from an estate where all the other dinner service & porcelains were 19th C.  I am still unsure though.
Title: CLOVER SHAPED GLASS
Post by: aa on February 12, 2006, 05:42:55 PM
Is it definitely two gold lines or could it be that there was one gold line that has rubbed away over time?
Title: CLOVER SHAPED GLASS
Post by: aa on February 12, 2006, 05:45:20 PM
Quote from: "benebarker"
It came from an estate where all the other dinner service & porcelains were 19th C.  I am still unsure though.


where was the estate? country? Do you know where the dinner services came from? might have a bearing
Title: CLOVER SHAPED GLASS
Post by: benebarker on February 12, 2006, 06:54:41 PM
There is definately two seperate gold lines (one is thicker than the other) and the glasses came from an adirondack estate where much of the dinner service was French 19th C though I dont recall specific names- I do remember the auctioneer reffering to almost all of the porcelain as 19th C. Thanks again!
Title: CLOVER SHAPED GLASS
Post by: aa on February 13, 2006, 06:57:00 PM
I am not an expert on this type of glass, but I think they are probably French. Could be nineteenth century. Difficult from photo.Might be Baccarat. But having stuck my neck out when others are silent, will I end up regretting this? :D
Title: CLOVER SHAPED GLASS
Post by: Ivo on February 13, 2006, 09:43:37 PM
I agree with Adam - it is certainly very elegant dinnerware, and quite possibly Baccarat or Saint Louis. If it is, the people ar the Musée Baccarat in Paris should be able to tell you when it was in production.
Title: CLOVER SHAPED GLASS
Post by: benebarker on February 14, 2006, 02:21:10 AM
Thanks so much for your thoughts! Was I acurate in describing the glasses as clover shaped?
Title: CLOVER SHAPED GLASS
Post by: Connie on February 14, 2006, 09:57:18 AM
I would refer to them as quatrefoil sometimes spelled quadrafoil.

http://www.pitt.edu/~medart/menuglossary/Quadfoil.htm


edited to add:

To answer Adam's question of what country, where?  The poster said in the Adirondacks - which is US, New York State, Adirondack Mtns, north of where I live.