Ken & Sid — Fascinating. I get so used to fake applied handles on pressed glass baskets and jugs that I didn't think to check. I can see that they are applied.
But how? ... and what was applied?
Possibilities include:-
Hand-twisted grooved rod applied and shaped by hand.Pressed spiral rod applied and shaped by hand.Pressed handles, applied by hand.
It is even just possible that they are pressed handles, made as the first stage in a two-part pressing, like John Sowerby's patent No. 2433 of 15 September 1871 for Ornamenting glass with designs in glass of a different colour, only this time in the same colour, see Hajdamach. You may recall the two plates I had through my hands several years ago Sowerby made by this process.
Could this be an apprentice piece or an expert training piece, made to look like what it isn't? — i.e. fake pressed glass? — or fake handmade glass?
In some ways it is reminiscent of the little posy basket in Sowerby's Venetian range.
Bernard C. 8)