Almost everyone has a piece of old glass that has been in the family for years, and every piece seems to have a glamorous history behind it. Most of the stories are more fable than fact. There were stories in…
The twentieth century saw astounding changes in the American home and American food. The nineteenth-century housewife killed the chicken, plucked its feathers, and cleaned, cut, seasoned, and cooked the chicken on an open flame. By 1990 she went to a…
Face jugs like this stoneware devil have been a Southern pottery form for centuries. This 10-1/4-inch jug is marked ‘WA Flowers NC Mtns 1995 AD.’ Photo: Brunk Southern folk pottery was not appreciated by many collectors until the 1980s. It…
Porcelain was first made in America about 1738. During the next decades, more potters made porcelain, but none of the businesses lasted more than ten years. By the middle of the nineteenth century, Jersey Porcelain and Earthenware Company, Tucker and…
Quality pottery and porcelain have been made in the area known as Bohemia since the late eighteenth century. At the end of World War I in 1918, Bohemia joined Moravia and Slovakia to form Czechoslovakia. Quantities of tableware and pottery…
Around the 1880s, when the popularity of pressed glass was waning, companies like Mt. Washington Glass Company and Hobbs, Brockunier & Company in the United States, and Thomas Webb & Sons and Stevens & Williams in England introduced glassware with…
If you're looking for Victorian glass and you're on a tight budget, it's still possible to build a high-quality collection of small items like tumblers. More than 120 art glass and pressed glass tumblers from a single collection auctioned recently…
Everything's coming up roses-for collectors of rose bowls, that is. An extensive collection of the art glass bowls sold at Julia's auction in Fairfield, Maine. Top price was $575 for a rainbow Mother-of-Pearl satin glass bowl with three crystal feet.…
Spatter glass is made with multicolored irregular blotches. During the shaping of the item, the glassmaker rolls the gather of glass in little pieces of colored glass, and the pieces adhere to the gather. Spangle glass is spatter glass with…
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