Topic: Cranberry glass white heart shaped goblet help please.

[brucebanner]

Any thoughts on this one, I'm thinking Victorian and maybe a wine glass and part of a set at some point, the lower half is hollow.

6 3/4 inches in height, 3 1/2 inches across the rim and 3 1/8th inch across the base.

Regards Chris.

[Ivo]

Cased in white, cut through and gilded - it must be Bohemian.  Wine glass is unlikely, the glass is too thick and the hollow stem impossible to clean. 

[flying free]

When you say the lower half is hollow do you mean if you look up through the bottom of the foot, the hollow goes all the way up through the stem to where it touches the bowl?  so you could poke a pipe cleaner all the way up until it touches the base of the cup/bowl?
Or do you just mean the foot is a trumpet shape and hollow until it touches the base of the stem?

What colour is the base glass - my monitor shows rose pink? Is it amber?

Ivo could it be Russian possibly? the flared rim sits a little oddly for Bohemian maybe?
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[Ivo]

If it is Russian or Hungarian you are not likely to find it out. The styles are indistinguishable. In Bohemia this type of glass has been made for 200 years now, in Russia it was a short lived production run - so the odds favour Bohemian.

[brucebanner]

Yes M a pipe cleaner would go all the way up and touch the bowl, these three pics are the exact colour, thanks for your replies.

[Ivo]

FWIW here is a clear example of Bohemian which is equally hollow to the bottom. It also features white casing cut through, and gold. Though I must say, I like yours better.

[flying free]

ooh that's a weird concept that the foot and the stem are hollow right the way up to the bowl 
Were the foot and stem blown as one piece presumably?

Ivo, not totally disagreeing re Bohemian, but something is a bit 'different' about OP's glass from anything I've seen.  The shape of the bowl and the flared rim just jars somehow.  The foot makes me think 1860's, but the gilding on the clear glass rather than on the white enamel overlay and the style/ type of gilding makes me think earlier maybe 1840-1850 (very similar to that used on hyalith glass during the 1840s). 

Harrach did use something similar to that heart shape motif but a tiny bit different in the design.  That's on a decanter (will have to look date up later).

The rosaline colour the gilding the shape of the bowl and the flared rim are all a little unusual.  I shall try and look through my book this weekend to see if there is any match.

It's lovely btw - it would look very at home in my little overlay collection 
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