Topic: Could this be an American Brilliant Cut Glass Bowl ?

[KarenR]

With permission from the LABAC group's originator, Rob Smith, here is the advertisement showing Roy's sweet pea vase/compote, shown on page INT-10 of LABAC's Cut Glass Advertisements, book 2.  In this case only a maker and country of origin can be ascertained, but without this one advertisement that important information would not be known.  I've been a LABAC member about a year-and-a-half and I've lost track of the number of times this has happened. 

About LABAC:  LABAC is an informal nonprofit research group that pools resources to find and acquire significant Brilliant Period cut glass catalogs, booklets, photographs, scrapbooks, advertising and other materials.  LABAC distributes copies of developed and found materials to members, for their personal study and research use.  There are presently about nine dozen participants, and everyone is invited to join in this important research effort.  Google "cut glass about LABAC" to learn more.

[KevinH]

I know almost nothing about "brilliant cut" glass and it's only because I happened to be browsing various messages that I don't usually look at in much detail that I noticed the comment and question:

Looking through book and newspaper archives I have run across the term "brilliant cut" glass in England.  Was such glass made in Europe during the American brilliant period?

Such glass was certainly made in Englnd in that period and Charles Hajdamach included a chapter on the subject in British Glass 1800-1914. He said, however, that the English versions of "brillaint cut" could not be mistaken for the American. The patterns were apparently different with the English preferring less-deep cuts and using hobnails and strawberry diamonds rather than pinwheels and curved mitres. And even though I know nothing much about it, I am aware that in Continental Europe, the "brilliant cut" patterns were often much more like those of the American style, and that's possiby why there is so much pinwheel pattern glass from modern Continental European sources.