A Fine Cut And Polished Vase With Fan Cut Rim c1880

Description

Heading : A high quality 19th century vase with fan cut rim
Date : c1880
Origin : Most probably North West England
Bowl Features : Stepped with deep horizontal and vertical miter cuts. Fan cut rim. Radial spoke cut foot
Marks : None
Type : High lead glass. excellent grey blue hue
Size : Height 21.5cm
Condition : Excellent
Restoration : None
Weight : 1805 grams

Additional Information : The style and colour alone would many insisting upon Irish Origin and early 19th century.

The impact of the 1746 glass tax and its various revisions must be considered.The tax free status granted to Ireland lead to huge growth in production. The imposition of the tax in Ireland from 1825 by the reverse of the same token lead to the demise of Irish manufactories. It was the abolition of the tax in 1845 for all producers that saved the Irish glass industry.

This is far too lavish in its use of glass to have been made before 1845. The deep cutting is too precise and the style was first exhibited at the Great Exhibition of 1851. The finish is too high a standard to be 19th century and Irish. The finest cutters were not to be found in Stourbridge but  Warrington and Manchester. not Wicklow and Monaghan. To cap it all this was acid polished a technique nor developed until the late 19th century.