A superb and large Bohemian milchglas, or milk glass, large mug or tankard. This wonderful example features a central polychrome enameled scene of a castle in a reserve surrounded by flowers and leaves, the whole flanked with further large bouquets of flowers.
This drinking vessel is 6 1/8 inches tall, with a diameter at the bottom of 4 1/2 inches, and a rim diameter of 3 7/8 inches. The condition is superb, with no chi ...click for details
A sentimental Bohemian souvenir or memento flashed red glass mug, with a nicely curved handle. Etched with flowers and the saying "To My Son." In superb condition, standing 4 1/8 inches tall, with a diameter of 2 3/8 inches.
This glass is a companion piece to g1217, identical except for the floral arrangement on top of the cartouche surrounding the saying.
A sentimental Bohemian souvenir or memento flashed red glass mug, with a nicely curved handle. Etched with flowers and the saying "Remember Me." In superb condition, standing 4 1/8 inches tall, with a diameter of 2 3/8 inches.
This glass is a companion piece to g1218, identical except for the floral arrangement on top of the cartouche surrounding the saying.
An ornate and huge Bohemian antique glass goblet of baluster form. The round funnel bowl is cut all over with hexagons, the top row of which forms round arches. The elaborately worked stem contains two flattened knops, each cut with roundels, and a truncated inverted baluster knop cut with hexagons mirroring the bowl. A total of about 12 merises surround the knops.
This rare glass is in perfect condition, and stands an ...click for details
A beautiful and uncommon sugar bowl, probably S. Jersey (South Jersey) glass. The bowl has a galleried top and embedded white enamel striping. The bowl rim and foot have an applied green edge.
This fine piece is in superb condition, with no chips, cracks, or problems of any kind. It is 5 inches tall and 5 inches in diameter, with a rough, snapped pontil.
A superb and beautifully engraved German glass wine goblet of friendship or marriage significance and extremely large size. The capacious pointed round funnel bowl is elaborately decorated with crowned hearts below clasped hands. There are flowers and foliage and an inscription in old German, roughly translated as "No matter where in the world we are, our friendship will last forever." The stem has a faceted shoulder knop, and a hollow faceted inverted baluster medial knop leading int ...click for details
This is an elegantly proportioned wine glass with a flared bell bowl and a color twist stem. The stem has two translucent red and two opaque white spiral threads surrounding a loose vertical cable. The foot is of conical form with a rough snapped pontil.
The glass is of heavy, bright metal, and displays good tooling marks and striations. 19th century. The condition is excellent, with no chips, scratches, or repair ...click for details
This is an elegantly proportioned wine glass with a flared bell bowl and a color twist stem. The stem has two translucent red and two opaque white spiral threads surrounding a loose vertical cable. The foot is of conical form with a rough snapped pontil.
The glass is of heavy, bright metal, and displays good tooling marks and striations. 19th century. The condition is excellent, with no chips, scratches, or repairs ...click for details
A large and stunning Dutch engraved German goblet, probably from Hesse, a state in west central Germany, whose largest city is Frankfort. The capacious ribbed bowl is engraved with a scene of a Dutch burger, smoking a long clay pipe, standing on a cargo pier with two ships in the background. The ribbed stem is hollow, and has 6 applied strawberry prunts. Conical folded foot. Perfect condition.
Bell bowl above a stem containing a pair of solid multi-ply spiral bands outside of a pair of heavy spiral threads. Soda glass with the normal scattered bubbles and a seed. 6 5/16 inches tall, bowl diameter 2 3/8 inches, foot diameter 2 3/4 inches.
A nicely executed Dutch double series opaque twist drinking glass, made of soda metal, with elegant form. A bell bowl with a stem with a pair of solid multi-ply spiral bands outside of two heavy spiral threads. 6 1/2 inches tall, with a bowl diameter of 2 1/2 inches and a foot diameter of 2 15/16 inches.
A Dutch double series opaque twist, DSOT, wine glass of nice form, soda metal, with a bell bowl over a stem with two bands surrounding two entwined tapes. 6 1/2 inches tall, with a bowl diameter of 2 9/16 inches and a foot diameter of 2 15/16 inches.
A superb and beautiful Zwischengold wine glass with a slightly flared conical bowl with a solid base. The bowl sits atop a stem with a shoulder merise over a cushion knop, below which is an inverted baluster section above a basal knop. The bowl has a gold and red medallion pressed within 2 layers of glass. The glass is 5 3/4 inches tall, with a bowl diameter of 3 1/8 inches and a foot diameter of 3 1/16 inches.
A very rare German mixed color twist of soda glass. Bell bowl with a solid base over a stem containing a white opaque twist multi-ply corkscrew surrounding a ruby thread, the whole with an entwined single air thread. 6 1/8 inches tall, 2 3/8 inch bowl diameter, 2 3/4 inch foot diameter.
Mixed twist glasses are as rare as color twist glasses, and the combination of both is an extremely uncommon and desirable construction ...click for details
An absolutely wonderful and highly amusing engraved baluster glass, actually a goblet, of soda metal. The round funnel bowl, which has a beaded base, is engraved with two rabbits carrying a dog in a sedan chair. The reverse side of the bowl says, in Old German, "Man Mus Einen Seinen Gute & Thun", which roughly translates as "You have to do good things for your enemies." Clearly the rabbits are following that advice so as to not be chased or eaten by the dog. ...click for details
