Topic: Pressed hobnail bowl enhanced by cutting - maker?

[Chris Harrison]

Pressed hobnail bowl.  The original design included the hobnail rim and the flower stems and centres.  The petals have all been added by wheel cutting (I think), and the hobnails have all been cross-hatched.

The base is similar to a Tudor rose, but with 6 segments, not 5.  The only match to this that I know is on pieces thought to be by Bagley, such as the fish scale plate.

Any ideas, please?  Any chance it might be a Bagley Crystal Company piece from the 1910s?

[TxSilver]

The bowl looks much like the glass in the Innovation line made by McKee Glass c. 1920. McKee often used wheel cut flowers on pressed glass blanks. Many of their Innovation pieces have the cane (hobnail) pattern. I have not seen the bowl with this specific rim, but I suspect it is McKee. McKee was in Pennsylvania, USA (Jeanette).

[TxSilver]

By the way, if it is McKee, the leaves were part of the blank.

[Chris Harrison]

Anita

Many thanks for your help.  I googled McKee and found a few similar pieces, including one with an almost identical rim.   I think you've got it!

So it made it across the Atlantic and survived the best part of 100 years with just some scratches on the inside.  It's very pretty.  I think it's a keeper. 

[TxSilver]

They are true cross-over pieces of glass, so are mentioned in both American cut glass and pressed glass books. I have had a few that were so brilliant that they looked completely like cut glass. I usually don't care for pressed glass, but I do like the brighter Innovation pieces. The ones like yours with the cane pattern are the prettiest, IMO.