Crackle Glass Wrockwardine Style Tankard

Description

Heading : Crackle glass tankard
Date : Late 19th century or 20th century
Origin : British
Colour : Light amethyst with multi coloured flecks
Bowl : Crackle glass with decorative swirl of flecks and applied handle
Pontil : Polished
Glass Type : lead
Size : Approx 10.8cm tall with a 8.7cm bowl and 8.7cm base  
Condition : Fine with slight mossing to base
Restoration : None
Weight : 529 grams

Aspley Pellatt Curiosities of Glass Making gives a full explaination of how crackle glass was made. Examples of crackle are known from the early 19th century. The flecking in this glass is a decorative style widely usen in the 19th century by Wrockwardine. Alloa and others. The handle however. applied bottom up withe the flat inner surface on the handle is mid Victorian or later.