Topic: Cut glass table setting of comport and six matching plates

[Bernard C]

Set:  w. 9lb 5½oz 4237g. Comport:  h. 7¼" 18.3cm, d. 8¾" 22.0cm,   foot d. 4¼" 10.8cm, w. 2lb 8½oz 1156g. Plates:  d. 8½" 21.5cm, av. w. 1lb 2oz 513g,   w. range 1lb ½oz 471g – 1lb 4¼oz 576g. Click any image to enlarge.

This is a complete table set of a comport and six matching plates, all hand made and cut.   All seven pieces have ground and polished flat bases with a good cut 16-point star.   The stem and foot of the comport are hollow with one continuous bubble, so appear to have been made as one piece.   I think everything else is fairly obvious from my photographs and measurements.

Help sought with virtually everything.   What was the set for?   Maker?   Terminology — for example I've seen that double ogee with a stepped notch in between rim elsewhere — so is there a proper name for it?   Dates?   Reference sources?   I've looked in Silber & Fleming (circa 1890) with no luck at all.   Is the amber colour unusual?

Thanks for your interest,

Bernard C.