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Author Topic: Victorian Cut Glass Tazza / Comport  (Read 766 times)

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Offline mhgcgolfclub

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Victorian Cut Glass Tazza / Comport
« on: March 20, 2014, 08:25:21 PM »
I bought this nice cut glass comport recently. I think its most likely English or Irish although Pittsburgh Glass also made very similar designs.

I am guessing around the 1850's .

Height 8.5" / 21.5cm
Diameter 9" / 22cm
Weight 1200gm

Roy

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Offline Paul S.

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Re: Victorian Cut Glass Tazza / Comport
« Reply #1 on: March 22, 2014, 09:23:11 PM »
Hi Roy  -  well at least 45 people took the time to look.               Lovely piece, but then I'm biased. :)

I think we can safely say post 1830, but more than that is not easy  -  we lack a good book on cut glass after the Regency and into the rest of the C19  -  I'd have thought more likely European rather than States, but just my opinion.             Which book had you looked at re your comments about Pittsburgh?? :)

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Offline mhgcgolfclub

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Re: Victorian Cut Glass Tazza / Comport
« Reply #2 on: March 23, 2014, 01:26:17 PM »
Thanks Paul

I agree English , Irish or European.
I only said Pittsburgh Glass as Carol found a very similar comport for Pittsburgh Glass , it said there were many similarities with English or Irish designs as many of the cutters ended up in the US from Ireland or the UK.
It came from Lewes . I had already bought a more expensive piece of cut glass on the same day at Lewes which we had seen a couple of weeks earlier and not bought and left the tazza behind but decided to go back the next day and buy it.

Roy & Carol

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