JUMBO FIGURAL COVERED FRUIT BOWL
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JUMBO FIGURAL COVERED FRUIT BOWL, frosted colorless, finely molded with circus regalia, the cover finial in the shape of a howdah. Probably Aetna Glass & Mfg. Co. Circa 1883. 10 1/4" HOA.
Outstanding condition, bruise to edge of cover and under base, several small frosted over areas of polishing to base rim, probably as made, otherwise undamaged.
Literature: See Heacock - Collecting Glass, volume 1, pp. 91, 92 for a discussion of this piece, and also for a line drawing captioned "Pictured here for the VERY FIRST TIME in modern literature."
Provenance: From the Jay Corbett collection.
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates 9/26/15, lot 306
Ex-collection of the late Mildred and Devero Martin of Franklinton, NC.
Catalogue Note: We could locate only one other complete example of this extremely rare dish. That being the colorless specimen sold though our gallery in 2008 from the Fenton Glass Museum. The base of that example was severely cracked.
Outstanding condition, bruise to edge of cover and under base, several small frosted over areas of polishing to base rim, probably as made, otherwise undamaged.
Literature: See Heacock - Collecting Glass, volume 1, pp. 91, 92 for a discussion of this piece, and also for a line drawing captioned "Pictured here for the VERY FIRST TIME in modern literature."
Provenance: From the Jay Corbett collection.
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates 9/26/15, lot 306
Ex-collection of the late Mildred and Devero Martin of Franklinton, NC.
Catalogue Note: We could locate only one other complete example of this extremely rare dish. That being the colorless specimen sold though our gallery in 2008 from the Fenton Glass Museum. The base of that example was severely cracked.
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Outstanding condition, bruise to edge of cover and under base, several small frosted over areas of polishing to base rim, probably as made, otherwise undamaged.
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JUMBO FIGURAL COVERED FRUIT BOWL
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