Topic: Jobling Fostoria giant glass pedestal fruit bowl for show.

[brucebanner]

I'm going to be brave and put this in the Uk glass section due to the colour of the glass which is very yellow.

I'm guessing this has never been seen before on here.


10 1/2 inches in diameter across the rim, 8 inches in height and 6 inches across the base.

[Lustrousstone]

Why do you think it's Jobling and why have you called it Fostoria?: As far as I know, Jobling only made two items in these cubes and the only piece of Fostoria American I have had was crystal clear. Czech companies made these cube patterns foo

[brucebanner]

It has the same straw colour as a bowl I put on here a while ago, it's not the clear blue colour of American cube, a couple of American collectors have said it's Jobling and it's not in Pinna's or Seligson's, I just picked up 220 pieces of this cube pattern some I think have not been seen for a while and I think a lot is English made. So it could be Czech, the topic can always be moved if i'm wrong.

[David E]

You've just picked up 220 pieces in this pattern??? 

Anyway, my eyeballs are back in place now, so I will say that I have a large early Czecho bowl (marked on base), probably 1920s, that does have a distinct straw-yellow tinge. Lovely optic pattern on those cube pieces.

[brucebanner]

Yes, I picked up 600 pieces of everything the weekend, there is no room for the dogs, have a look in my shop a lot of it has sold, I would love to know who made the cube with the fan base, it pops up from time to time, sometimes stamped British make and some times plain, something is going on, some cube is that straw colour same as the Jobling three handled bowl, I'll put a pick on later of a few I have unpacked with the fan pattern on the base.

[brucebanner]

Here is why I thought this Jobling, the pictures show a dressing table set same colour, but the pattern i'm on about with the fan and the same star base as the Jobling bowl is always blueish.

The blue fan cut glass always sells straight away and goes to America so i'm guessing that's why they call it English cube.

These all have the same pattern, identical.

[brucebanner]

A pic of the same fan.

[Mosquito]

The pieces with the 'fan' (actually an eight-point star) are all Jobling's 2077 suite. The three- handled salad bowl also is from this range and incorporates the fan/ star where the lower edge of the handles meets the body (while the small 2077 handled bowl also has the stars between the handles). The 2077 pattern is perhaps best known from the jade pieces which were produced from 1933 and incorporated into the Art Glass range, but the pattern predates this and several other shapes were made. Last year I picked up a rather nice jug in amber, for example (sadly not yet photographed).

What I see in your pics are the handle-less sugar bowl in both cupped and flanged variants, small jug (creamer?), and tumbler, all of which are documented Jobling from c. mid 1920s-30s. 

As for the large bowl in the original post I would say almost certainly not Jobling -- it's doesn't look to be from the 2077 range for sure.

Jobling's flint/ clear glass tends to be grayish in colour but there are yellower pieces out there as per the salad bowl shown. This may be due to changes in batch over the years. For example I have two flint Jobling bears: one (earlier) is grayish while the second looks quite yellow in comparison.

Here's another 2077 piece for comparison -- a small size 3-handled bowl with the scarcer cupped rim:

[brucebanner]

What do you think about the dressing table set in the same straw colour do you think Jobling made that one? There are no stars on it, great to have a name to it, it will really help when I find and list it in the future.