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Hearts and flowers pattern

Sweetmeat Dish
ca. 1914 (made)
Artist/Maker
Northwood Glass Company (manufacturer)
Place of origin
America (made)
Wheeling (made)

Clear colourless glass sweetmeat dish, a wavy edged bowl on a trumpet stem. Decorated with a foliage pattern, with an orange gold matt lustre on moulded pattern. The pattern is press moulded, metallic salts are sprayed on and it is heated.

Object details

Categories
Glass
Eating
Object type
Sweetmeat dish
Titles
  • Hearts and flowers pattern (popular title)
  • Marigold colour (popular title)
  • Carnival Glass (popular title)
Materials and techniques
Glass, press moulded, hot-worked
Glass
Moulded
Hot-Worked
Brief description
Sweetmeat dish of glass, probably made by Northwood Glass Co., probably West Virginia (Wheeling), c.1914.
Physical description
Clear colourless glass sweetmeat dish, a wavy edged bowl on a trumpet stem. Decorated with a foliage pattern, with an orange gold matt lustre on moulded pattern. The pattern is press moulded, metallic salts are sprayed on and it is heated.
Dimensions
  • Width: 15.6cm
  • Greatest width height: 15.0cm
Style
20TH CONT
Gallery label
The iridescent and variegated colouring is typical of what has become known as 'Carnival' glass. It was achieved by spraying the still hot, moulded glass with metallic compounds fixed with stannous chloride.
Credit line
Given by Raymond and Michel Lerpiniere
Object history
This type of glass has been called Carnival Glass by collectors since c.1960. This pattern is called 'Hearts and Flowers' by modern collectors. the colour 'marigold'.
The shape now called a compote in the uSA but described in contemporary catalogues as a comport.
Bibliographic reference
Carnival glass subject file no.CG-3
Other number
7659 - Glass gallery number
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
C.25-1992

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Record createdDecember 13, 1997
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O3757/hearts-and-flowers-pattern-sweetmeat-dish-northwood-glass-company/
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