Topic: Unusual Sowerby sugar

[Lustrousstone]

This pedestal sugar is unusual in that it is pressed and then cut (three rows of cutting on the bowl). I can't find it in any of the Sowerby catalogues but I'm assuming late 1800s from the style. It is marked

[Lustrousstone]

Bumping up before I send it to the charity shop.

[chopin-liszt]

  Thanks for that. I've learned that you do get cut pressed glass. I did not know that before, especially not on anything officially.

I have been wondering about some tiny Russian glasses I found several years ago - they seem to be pressed, and then cut.