Topic: Crackle glass green snake sugar bowl help please.

[brucebanner]

I collected broken and repaired glass, this is my newest addition, is it Bohemian French English ?, i have found a couple of similar ones with a Richardson label and looked up an old post on here from 2007 but the pics have gone, this has a pin through the middle keeping the top and bottom half together.

It's 7 1/2 inches in height, 5 inches across the bowl and 3 3/4 inches across the base.

[keith]

Got one similar, without the snake, if I remember, English, French,Bohemia and America were mentioned,

[brucebanner]

What do you think to an age?.

[keith]

At a guess 1900-1920, might be way out,

[flying free]

I think these are both Bohemian and would say they date c.1860s.
m

[keith]

Thanks M, I'd forgotten about this piece 

[flying free]

just reading up in Das Bohmische Glas Band III and on page 147 plate III.193 and 194 they show two footed Eisglas bowls similar to yours.  They aren't the same in that the design of the foot, the stem and the shape on the rim is different ... I know, that makes them sound completely different but there are similarities especially with the one pictured III.193... and they say (translated) 'The Harrach-hutte first sold ice glass under the name Vermerzell Glas or Frostettglas at the Austrian trade exhibition in Vienna in 1845. The shape of our footrest (translated word, I think footrest is supposed to read footed bowl or perhaps stem) is in the invoice books of the years 1855-1858'. 

So yours could be a little earlier.

The one with the snake (green snake on Eisglas bowl shown in Harrach book 'From Neuwelt to the Whole World, Mergl J.' could be into the 1860s.

[flying free]

Keith, the design of the stem/foot of this bowl is very similar to yours so it could be that trumpet form pedestal foot might have come into popularity post 1850   The two in the book that I referred to in my previous post  in Eisglas are different to yours and quite 'masculine' in shape of their foot and stem design, more Biedermeier style (to my eye at least):
https://antikes-glas.de/en/schachtenbach/large-centerpiece-made-white-alabaster-glass-schachtenbach-half-p-173.html

[keith]

Thanks again M, must dig out the piece and have a look, it's been so long since that post.