Topic: cut glass celery with ground pontil mark

[Paul S.]

just by way of interest really since this comes very hard on the heels of my very recent post of similar item for washing grapes, and which also had a ground/polished concave pontil mark.
quote yesterday from Lustrousstone.........I suspect there are blown celeries too. The difference is probably a money issue; grapes were dear and for the upper middle and upper classes. Celery was cheap and fashionable...
This one is certainly for celery....beautifully cut  -  rings like you can't imagine, and is an absolute text book description for a quality celery......... bowl resting on a short knop stem on a spreading flat base which has a cog-wheel pattern.   Cut with oval lenses and oblique slashes - and a toothed cut on the top rim.   Remarkable to find two similar pieces with a concave pontil, after the hordes of pressed ones.    I don't think the working classes could have afforded this one though, fairly high quality, but oddly let down by the foot which is really out of true.  Diameter one way is 87mm, and the other is 83mm  -  why so much variation on an otherwise quality piece?   sorry the base pic. rubbish

[Lustrousstone]

4mm was probably within the acceptable circularity limits. Seconds were minimised, as they had to go for cullet, and nobody expected perfection as they do today.

The wealthy and wealthier would have bought/grown celery too.

[Paul S.]

thank you Christine  - in fact this one is a real beauty - a ring to die for.   And so I think I will cease acquiring Celeries now as I have a good selection.