Engraved Bucket Bowl Rummer c1850

Description

Heading : A fine engraved bucket bowl rummer
Period : 1820-1860
Origin : England or north-west France
Colour : Clear with goo dark hue.
Bowl : Bucket shaped. An acid etched band has been cut into to decorate with vesicas with fine diamonds and polished diamonds with internal stars with polished printies on each side. The lower bowl has deep slice cuts. It has not been acid polished.
Stem : Plain. There is one large merese (cushion) attached to the foot
Foot : Plain
Pontil : Broad ovoid polished pontil
Glass Type : Low Lead 
Size :  13cm height.  8.2cm diameter bowl. 7.0cm diameter foot 
Condition : Excellent. no chips or cracks 
Restoration : None 
Weight:  270grams 

The engraving is neoclassical and we have observed the same design on both English wine glasses and decanters from 1750 right the way through into the Regency and Anglo-Irish period.

Acid etching was used for decorative purposes on English glassware from at least the mid 1790s. However. it did not come into widespread commercial use until the 1820s.

The manner in which the foot was attached to the stem is typical of English rummer glasses from the first third of the 18th century. The earliest that this would have been produced in England would be 1820 we also acknowledge the fact that fabrication methods and styles produced in France persisted for longer. or it could be argued that there was a lag.

A great glass.