Topic: Vintage sherry? with merese and flake cut bowl

[Bernard C]

   

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H. 4" 10.2cm, d. 2¼" 5.7cm, foot d. 2¼" 5.4cm, w. 4¼oz 126g.   Pontil scar heat smoothed with a shear mark to one side.   Lovely cutting striations on the flake cuts.

Any information welcomed.

Thanks for your interest,

Bernard C. 

[Bernard C]

Further information:

The glass is quite colourless.   There are light horizontal striations on the bowl and two minute stones.  You can see where the shears cutting the rim started (or ended).   You can see concentric striations on the foot, one tiny bubble near the upper surface causing a small blemish, and a possible gadget mark on the underside.

Bernard C. 

[Paul S.]

It is possible this is a bladed or angular knop Bernard - rather than a merese (think they tend to be a little sharper in profile) - but I don't see too well from your picture, and stand to be corrected.       This glass appears to be another bucket shaped rummer with broad fluted base (to the bowl) on a rudimentary stem, and with a ground/polished pontil mark, and  would normally be dated to within the first 30 years of the C19.     HOWEVER, you mention a possible gadget mark, which would then change the dating drastically to something probably within the last 30 years of the C19.   Size wise, these rummers were very diverse, and I've one or two large versions marked '1 pint'  -  down to quite small ones like yours, and looking at pictures of these things would seem very easy to confuse some of them with goblets.     If you have Wilkinsons book 'The Hallmarks of Antique Glass', he does show many sizes of what must be one of the largest groups of one type of drinking glass, many of which were made specifically for the pub trade (thick, heavy and basic).        Does no one else take an interest in these things?  -  I think Peter must be on holiday.

[oldglassman]

HI ,
       No not on holiday ,just up to my ears in hundreds of glasses in preparation for tomorrows glass fair,17th and 18thc glasses all over the place being cleaned and labelled, . sorry but I cant really add much to what has been said already about these small glasses , they are probably one of the most common types you will come across dating from the early 19th and into the 20th c , later ones tending to be of thinner and brighter metal , most have what I would call a blade knop if quite thin and angular if thicker , merese's to me are very thin wafers of glass that separate knops , for example between a pair of hollow blown knops ,or between the bottom of a bowl just above a knop ,

anyway back to the pile of glasses.

Cheers
             Peter.

[Bernard C]

Paul and Peter — Grateful thanks for the information.   I'm going to try to digest it all after tomorrow, and read a book or two on the subject.

Peter — Apologies.   I'm in the same state, with glass everywhere — busy washing and labelling — getting ready for tomorrow.   Dreadful timing by yours truly.   I will be more considerate next time.

Thanks again,

Bernard C.