Large Irish Cut Glass Standing Bowl c1800

Description

Heading : Irish glass standing bowl
Date : 1790-1810
Period : George III
Origin : Ireland
Colour : Clear
Rim : Turned-over. A band of interlocking prismatic split cuts
Bowl : Boat shaped bowl. Cut with a band of large diamonds bordered with split cutting
Stem : Two swelling knops
Foot : Moulded with inward tapered gadrooning
Glass Type : Lead
Size : 21.5cm tall and 32.5cm in length by 24.5cm wide
Condition : Very good. some grazing to the cuts and chipping to the foot as expected
Restoration : None
Weight : 3303 grams

Additional Information : This piece exhibits the style of ‘soft’. flat cutting associated with Cork Glass Co. See Phelps Warren pages 187 & 124/125 plate 86. The feet were moulded by specilaists known as “pinchers”. a clear reference ot the moulds that they used.

References :

Glass By Geoffrey Wills – Page 32 Plate 40.

Starting to Collect Antique Glass By John Sandon – Page 100.

An Illustrated Dictionary of Glass By Harold Newman – Page 318.

Miller’s Collecting Glass By Sarah Yates – Page 119.

English & Irish Glass By W. A. Thorpe – Figure 29a.

Irish Glass By Mary Boydell plate 24

English and Irish Glass By W A Thorpe p31 plate B