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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: mrvaselineglass on May 17, 2011, 07:26:01 PM
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Any help or direction to look would be greatly appreciated! The card receiver is 7 1/4 inches in diameter. there is an 8-lobe petal-style base. There is a rough pontil on the bottom (most likely so they could flare out the top). The height is 2 1/4 inches. I don't detect much of a bell tone, so I don't think it is old enough to be flint uranium glass. There is good wear on the bottom, though. The mold was a 3-part mold, and no wafer connects the bottom to the top. The mold may have been a sugar bowl that was flattened out. The piece lists a little to one side (1/4" drop from one side to the other), so that is why I think it might have started as a different shape when it first came out of the mold. The majority of the pattern is cross-lattice, with repeating oval lobes around the top rim.
Dave Peterson
(Mr. Vaseline Glass)
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hello Dave - have looked thru both volumes of Barry Skelcher, but regret no joy - and have searched the webb under both card receivers and visiting card trays (which I think is the name more appropriate for the UK) - again no success. Amazing what you learn when faced with something new - seems (almost without exception) that 'card receivers' were designed with some form of shaped decoration - i.e. the sides were curved up - or in some way they were not round and symmetrical like yours. In the silver/plate/pewter examples there was often an added decoration of floral/animal/female, and no doubt you've seen some of the colourful examples on ebay etc. Noticeably, glass ones seemed almost never to have a 'foot' like yours, although some metal examples did. Unless you have some reason for knowing this to have been used specifically as a 'card receiver', then I would seriously consider your piece to be some form of small comport/tazza/cake stand/seetmeat plate etc. Of course, some of these words are used very inappropriately - it's just that modern usage has mis-appropriated these names and we seem stuck with them, so I use them here. Sorry this is not much help.
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I agree. When I looked at it I wondered what design element designated this a card receiver other than a low footed compote/comport/bowl.
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I agree with the possible attribution to be a tazza or something else. However, I am not so concerned about the name of the shape as I am about the name of the pattern (or barring none exists), possibly the name of the maker. A mold can be used for a variety of shapes (i.e. a piece is pressed in a bowl mold and while the glass is still soft, it is flattened into a plate shape). This might have started out as a footed sugar. The pattern may have also been made in other shapes, such as a creamer. I was hoping someone had seen a lattice piece that had little ovals around the top border (in any shape).
Dave