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$240.00Corroso Art Glass Hand-Blown Mid-Century Jug Vase
The Corroso decor resembles ancient excavated glass. This art glass style was made popular by Alfredo Barbini (Italian). It is unsigned. Very well-made.
The maker is unknown. All clues point to Italian/Murano glass. The form and stunning blue color points to the mid-20th century. The expert craftmanships points to a fine Murano glasshouse. Matches decor and color used by Barbini for Cenedese in the 1940’s.
Hand-blown by mouth with tooled lip, fire polished rim, applied Scavo art glass decor, and applied peacock blue pulled handle. In perfect condition. Full-size pitcher measures just under 8″ tall on a 5½” round base. Weighs just over 2½ lbs.
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$145.00English Hobnail milk glass table or console centerpiece ensemble.
Made in the 1940’s – 1950’s by Westmoreland Glass, U.S.A. All items except the long bowl are marked by maker, WG embossed on the seats. Westmoreland Glass was an elegant glass maker of the early to mid 20th century, USA. They are no longer in business.
Thick, sturdy milk glass in English hobnail. Hobnails are flattened with four points. Normal hobnail pattern is rounded. The long bowl has a Sawtooth rim.
The vintage fan vase measures 5.25″ tall, 6.5″ wide and 1 5/8″ thick. It is in excellent condition. The long bowl measures 12″ long & 5″ wide. The long bowl has a sliver chip off one of the sharp Sawtooth points. See images. The candlestick holders are 5″ tall, one has a sliver chip on the base which can’t be seen, the other in excellent condition.
Well-made and sturdy opaque white glass goes with any color scheme. Beautiful and elegant decor focal point set.
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$95.00Handmade vintage Murano art glass owl with green millefiori eyes.
Mid-20th century Italian made owl figurine possibly by Franco Moretti. Certainly vintage Murano glass by one of the fine glass makers of the time.
Quality multi-color glass layered by hand and encased with crystal. Inner layer of colorless glass is cased with Lattimo (milk glass) providing opacity. The Lattimo layer is cased with the colored mottled glass. The owl’s body has silver leaf in the colored glass layer and expertly controlled bubbles inside the red glass head. The green millefiori eyes and colorless beak were applied. The figurine is solid glass, not hollow.
In excellent condition. Big owl figurine stands 5″ tall, 3″ at widest and weighs 1.6 lbs.
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$65.00Vintage Muranese Art Glass Hand Blown Stoppered Jug and Handled Bowl by Rainbow
Mid 1950’s art glass hand blown vessels for the vanity or table. Beautiful set by Rainbow Art Glass made in the USA.
Both were blown by hand with mottled white decor. The mottled decor combined with the style of the form was called ‘Muranese’ (Murano style), according to distributor ‘Belknap’ in their 1955 catalog, see image.
The jug/cruet has its original, fitted double-ball stopper. The dual handled urn is a scarce item, rarely seen today. The urn is slightly darker in color than the jug due to old-fashioned methods of mixing glass colors (by hand). Different batches of the same color often had slightly different tones.
Pontil scars from the glassblower’s punty on the base. Image 5 includes a large cobalt blue goblet to help show size and color.
Both in excellent condition. The jug measures 6″ tall. The urn is 3.25″tall and 4.25″ wide from handle to handle. The stoppered jug part no. was 781, and it came in six different fab shapes. Great fun to collect all shapes. The two-handled pot hasn’t been spotted in reference material.
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$130.00Hobbs Brockunier Frances Ware Antique Syrup Pitcher
Antique syrup pitcher from the Frances Ware line by Hobbs Brockunier. Turn of the century American art glass, circa late 1800’s. ‘Francis Ware’ was named after Grover Cleveland’s (USA President) wife Frances Folsom.
Beautiful Early American Pattern Glass (EAPG) hobnail pattern with a satin frost acid treatment on the lower half and a bright glowing amber on the upper portion. Hobbs Brockunier made quite a few table items in this pattern. Hard to find, but a real pleasure to collect.
Many Frances Ware items found today have chipped hobnails from bumping into other table items over the last 100+ years. This old stunner has only 1 small chigger on one hobnail on the body of the pitcher. On the base, the seat of the pitcher, there are approximately 8 chiggers off the last two rings of hobnails. These chiggers are invisible unless the pitcher is turned upside-down. They were caused by surface wear. See image 4.
The antique syrup pitcher has a pewter lid with 2 visible dents on the finial. The lid is intact and secure. Thumb tab flips up the lid to reveal a pouring spout. The lid seems to have a spring type control that provides tension while opening and it insures the lid shuts when the thumb pressure is removed. Whatever hardware used for this upgrade function is hidden within the thick walls of the cap.
The glass is sparkling clean with no residue stains. The solid glass handle was applied to the body. Made by hand over 100 years ago. Measures 7″ tall, 4½” at widest.
Shown in The Collector’s Encyclopedia of American Art Glass on page 74.
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$145.00Antique Venetian Art Glass Hand-Blown Vanity Vase Set with Silver Aventurine
Darling antique Venetian art glass vase set made by hand in Venice, Italy. They appear to be very old, possibly late 1800’s. Both in excellent condition.
Made of quality cased crystal. Inner layer of pink and green color with sparking silver aventurine. The vases are thick-walled with drawn stems. Applied hand-tooled crystal leaf bases have been ground to sit flat. Small bits of furnace debris can be seen within the glass. Furnace debris is often found in antique glass because they used open furnaces and organic fuel. In excellent condition.
Made completely by mouth and hand. One is slightly taller than the other. Both stand straight upright, the smaller appears to slant in the images, but it doesn’t slant, it’s a side-effect of imaging. They are not perfect in shape, but this is due to very old hand-made glass methods.
Beautiful for the vanity. Tallest is 7 3/8″, smaller stand 7″ tall. Both in excellent condition.
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$370.00Big hand blown art glass vase set with exterior polychrome and aventurine murrina décor.
Mysterious hand blown art glass vase set. We are unable to identify the maker or the era at this time. The only decor match we’ve found was described as “vasa Murrhina”, but it was on a vase from the first century A.D. This unique pair of vases are not from the first century. They were probably made in the 1940’s-1960’s.
They could be mid-century Italian/Murano/Venetian: Pezzato (Venini), Mosaica (Vistosi/Toso) or AVEM (Dino Martens). This high quality hand blown art glass vase set was certainly made by a master of the craft. Estimated circa 1920 – 1960.
The exterior décor process is called “Roll Up” or “laminated”. Colorful sheets of glass produced with kiln-fusing are rolled over the blown vessel, then attached to a blow pipe and blown again. It involves warm, hot, and cold methods all in unison. Very difficult to achieve.
The inner glass is blown cobalt blue (image 7). The laminated layer is not cased in clear as usually seen, it is the outer layer. Surface is textured. Multiple images included here due to difficulty in capturing the intense beauty of the vases. The laminate colors are blue, yellow, and copper aventurine. The laminate is wrapped over the vase openings which creates a stunning decor effect.
The vases are large and heavy. Measure 9.25 & 9.5″ tall, Weigh 3.75 lbs each. Slightly different height and shape on each is due the hand blowing process. Interesting soft form bullet shapes. Both in excellent condition with roughly ground pontil marks.
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$45.00Vintage art glass bowl cased in white and plum cased glass with lattice decor.
Beautiful vintage art glass bowl hand-made by Pilgrim Art Glass, USA. Circa 1960’s. In excellent condition.
The mid-century glass blower created this piece of glass art by casing dark purple glass with a layer of opaque white glass and a layer of colorless glass. It was then blown into an optic mold, cooled and hand-finished by heat polishing the rim and creating the wide V utensil rest with hand-tool. The base was polished flat leaving a remnant of the pontil mark.
Deep bowl is perfect for anything from sauces to nuts. Retro modern elegance for your table. Measures 6″ round and 4″ deep. Weighs 1.75 lbs.
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$60.00Murano Glass Clown Tomato hand-made in Italy, circa 1960’s – 1980’s.
Because of the fat, red, round belly, this vintage Murano Glass clown form is often called a ‘Tomato Clown’.
Each piece was handmade by an Italian glass artist and then applied together to form the clown. The feet and circle rim are in cobalt blue. The cobalt blue hat has applied rings of white glass. The hands, lips, nose, eyes, hair and ‘foliage’ collar are applied separately. Nice, thick, colorful vintage glass is sturdy and quality.
This Murano art glass clown measures 8″ tall, 5.75″ wide and 4″ thick. Weighs just under 2 lbs. In like-new condition. Perfect gift for your favorite clown lover.
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$50.00Set of Frosted Satin Mini Beer Mug Set by Tiara Glass, 1970’s in Original Box
Unused retro glass mini frosted beer mug set from the 1970’s. They are triple shot glasses in the shape of little beer mugs. Set of 6 in pristine condition. Made by Tiara Glass, a mid-20th century distributor of quality glass.
All in like-new condition and in original box. Each made of thick-walled vintage glass. Measure 3.25″ tall. Holds 3 measured shots. Semi-translucent white satin glass feels soft and smooth.
Very hard to find in good condition, rare to find unused. Perfect for those fancy mixed shots at your next party.
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$25.00Retro Fire King Kitchen Glass Summerfield Vintage Loaf Pan and Sauce Bowls
Fire King kitchen glass from the mid-20th Century was a revolution for homemakers. Bakeware that could be used from the oven to the table to the refrigerator was a concept welcomed by housewives. Fire-King produced many styles and decors to satisfy the demand.
Retro Fire King glass is fun to collect by pattern, and to use. The Summerfield pattern, introduced in the 1973 Fire-King catalog is nick-named ‘Flower Field’ by collectors.
This set includes a loaf pan (part no. W441/185) and two sauce bowls (W434/185) . All are in perfect condition with bright, complete graphics. Sauce bowls measure 3.75” wide and 2” tall. Loaf pan is 11″ long (handle to handle), 5½” wide, 2½” tall.
Vintage Fire King kitchen glass storage and bake ware is better and sturdier (and prettier) than modern, imported Fire King glass in stores today. Back in the day, Fire-King was made in the USA. Today’s Fire-King products are made offshore and the glass recipe is different…ie; synthetic.