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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: sverkern on April 17, 2009, 12:33:38 PM
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The jug measures up to 210 Gr. I tested it: 210 gram of water.
Beautifully decorated with a Cattleya orchid flower.
Height is 11,6 cm (4.6 inches). The violet glass is a thin layer at the inside.
I guess that it could not have been made in the English speaking world since it is graded in gram.
When was it made. Where was it made?
Thank you in advance
Sverker Nyberg
Sweden
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Fabulous one - I have several of these and I count them as my top pieces. They are what the Germans call "Badebecher". You needed one when you went for a "Kür" in a "Spa". You traveled to the grand hotel (the best ones were of course Karlsbad, Marienbad and Baden-Baden) but any town with "bad" will do. You then got yourself a measured goblet, and do the rounds "partaking the waters". The Kür is a sequence of perhaps 10 days in which you start on small quantities the first day, and drink buckets of the stuff towards the end. I have several with a double measure: one in ml. and the other in days.
The amethyst degrading to clear would probably be by Moser. I have a panel cut oval one, blue drgrading to clear with "Karlsbad"on it - every inch a Moser quality.