Antique Cranberry Flash Glass Decanters with Facet Cut Stoppers
You must be a subscriber, and be logged in to view price and dealer details.
Subscribe Now to view actual auction price for this item
When you subscribe, you have the option of setting the currency in which to display prices to $Au, $US, $NZ or Stg.
- Pineapple - The pineapple, named because of its resemblance to a pine cone, was an exotic and scarce fruit in the 18th century. It became a popular decorative motif on furniture, silver ceramics, glass and clocks during this time.
- Faceting - Faceting is a technique of removing material from a curved surface, to give a series of flat surfaces but retaining the profile of the original surface.
The technique is most commonly associated with diamond cutting where the various cuts used such as rose cut and brilliant cut, add life and sparkle to the stone, whilst at the same time removing as little of the stone as possible.
Faceting by grinding is also used to decorate glass. The stems of many drinking glasses are decorated by cutting a series of flat surfaces on a circular stem, and hollow vessels such as vases may have faceted surfaces.
In furniture faceting is often applied to legs of tables and chairs, where a circular baluster shaped section is flattened so as to form an octagonal section.
This item has been included into following indexes:
-
decanters, period or style
- Bohemian (Czech Republic) 20
- mallet shaped 27
- Victorian 136
Visually similar items
A pair of cranberry glass decanters, late 19th century, ovoid shaped with acid etched vines and grapes encircling, a fluted neck surmounted by a hexagonal cut stopper, cut and polished pontil mark underside. Height 31 cm. Diameter 15 cm
A pair of 'famille-rose' vases, 20th century, each of ovoid form rising to a tall slender neck with gilt edged rim, the sides delicately painted with a continuous scene of flowering plants and lingzhi fungus sprigs growing beside rockwork, the base with an
Pair of rare Japanese cloisonne vases, the enamel on pottery
An iron-red decorated vase, 19th/20th century of globular form surmounted by a tall narrow cylindrical neck, the sides painted with alternating panels of qilin in a landscape and birds among flowering plants, reserved on a floral scroll iron-red and gilt g