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Pattern Glass Forms
These are the most common forms found in Early American
Pattern Glass. Not all patterns had every form and some had other novelty items
not listed here. Often companies sold a Table Set, consisting of a butter dish,
creamer, sugar, and spooner as a unit. Some forms in a pattern are rare and much
sought after.
 Banana Stand
Beautiful Lady, c1890
Toward the end of the 19th century, advances in transportation and
refrigeration led to a rapid expansion in the kinds of foods available to
Americans throughout the country. Bananas became widely available in the 1880s,
inspiring manufacturers of tableware to develop dishes specifically designed for
the preparation and presentation of this strange new fruit. Whereas the exotic
nature of some newly introduced foods inspired manufacturers to develop
expensive and elaborate utensils for serving them, bananas also found their way
into a broadly middle-class market. While the specific function of this banana
bowl, or banana boat, reflects Victorian decorum and a desire to create
well-ordered homes in which everything had its proper place (or, in this case,
its proper dish), clearly this item was not destined for the home of a wealthy
person. Made of inexpensive pressed glass to imitate the more expensive cut
glass, such a bowl would have been well within the reach of the average
consumer. The end of the 19th century also marked a rapid rise in the quantity
of pressed glass available to American consumers as advances in factory
production made pressed glass easier and cheaper to produce.
(Strong Museum)
 Bowl
(flat & footed, various sizes)
Panama, 9", 1904, U.S. Glass
 Butter
Dish (with lid)
Barberry, McKee (and others) 1870
 Butter
Pat
New York Honeycomb, various manufacturers, c1860
Among the smallest pieces of EAPG, measures about 2.25" across. For serving
individual portion of butter.
 "Buttermilk
Goblet"
Open Rose, unknown, c1880
A term used by collectors, but having no relationship to the actual use of
the item identified as a "Buttermilk Goblet". These short stemmed. large bowl
items are actually sugar bases, missing their original lid. Lids were of course
a casualty early on , but the bases were still used and are more plentiful than
the complete covered ones. This isn't to say that the bases might not have been
used as drinking vessels, but this was not the manufactures intent. None of the
existing manufacturers catalogs show such an item as a buttermilk goblet which
looks like the sugar bases. However, if one wants to assemble a collection of
these sugar bases and call them "buttermilk goblets", they are still beautiful!
 Cake Plate
Flat plate with only a table ring on base, larger than a dinner plate.
Sometimes called a "Torte Plate"
Crescent
 Cake
Stand
Hand Stem cake stand, milk glass, Atterbury, c1880
Footed, high standard, flat top, usually having a rim or gallery to prevent
frosting or glaze from running onto a table surface.
 Celery Vase
Huber variation, various companies, 1850-1870
Rare and very expensive in 19th-century America, celery was considered a
luxury food - something to be enjoyed only by the wealthy or those who aspired
to high society. Like other luxury foods of the time, celery was presented at
the dinner table in the finest silver or cut glass. At the height of celery's
prominence in the late 19th century, hosts proudly displayed the noble vegetable
in vases. This celery vase from around 1870 carried the look of expensive cut
glass but was far less expensive, having been made of pressed glass before it
was cut and engraved. As celery's cultural cachet declined, however, so did its
relative prominence at the table. The tall-standing celery vases popular in the
1880s gave way to low celery dishes by 1890, when technological advances began
to produce a new, easy-to-grow variety of celery. As celery plummeted from the
heights of rarity and luxury, its stature literally fell. Virtually no celery
vases remained by the turn of the 20th century.
(Strong Museum)
 Champagne
Larger than the 4" wine, a champagne is usually about 5" tall.
Argus,
c1860
 Compote
open, high standard: Bellflower, flint, c1860, various companies
covered, low standard: Minerva, Sandwich, c1870
Both Open and Covered, having a stem or standard of varied heights, either
low or high
Compotes vary greatly in size, from small "jelly" compotes about 4" in
diameter, up to 10" in diameter..
 Cordial
A very small wine glass, about 3" tall.
Austrian, c1898
 Cracker Jar
For storing bulk crackers. Smaller than today's cookie jars.
Blocked Arches 1894, U.S. Glass
 Creamer
Cut Log creamer, OMN "Ethol", Bryce Higbee, 1885.
Cruet
Georgia or Peacock Eye cruet, c1890.
 Cup
Scroll with Star Cup & Saucer 1890, Challinor, Taylor
Usually meant to be part of a cup & saucer set, or a part of a punch set.
 Decanter
or Bottle
Honeycomb, bar lip, flint, various, c1850-1860
Birch Leaf, flint milk glass, manufacturer unknown, c1870
approximately 3.5" tall
 Goblet
Dakota, AKA "Baby Thumbprint" various, c1890
Tableware, measures approximately 6" high on stem.
 Jam
or Pickle Jar
Cylindrical base with overlapping lid. Sometimes found with metal frame
Cupid & Venus,c1880
Mug
Ribbed Ellipse, omn "Admiral", Bryce Higbee, 1905
Often feature patterns to appeal to children, but also used as shaving mugs,
or drinking vessels
 Pitcher
(water & milk)
Dahlia water pitcher, Canton, 1885
Water pitcher holds approximately 1/2 gallon of liquid and the milk pitchers
hold approximately 1 quart.
Cottage milk pitcher, amber, AKA "Dinner Bell", Adams, c1880
 Plate
(various sizes)
8", Good Luck, Adams, 1880
 Platter
(Bread Plate)
Constitution Hall, 1876.
Usually oval in shape, about 12" long.
 Relish Dish (Pickle Dish)
Leaf & Dart, 7" oval, 1875 Richards & Hartley
 Salt & Pepper Shaker
Kentucky, clear salt shaker, U.S. Glass 1890
Tulip & Sawtooth, 1870, various.
 Sauce
(flat & footed)
Inverted Fern flat sauce dish, approximately 4" diameter, New England,
c1860.
Sauce dishes vary in diameter from 3.5 to 5". They were used to serve
desserts. Often sold with a matching large bowl.
Snowflake, opalescent flint, New England, c1840-50.
Sometimes sold with matching lamp, held wooden sticks or twisted paper for
lighting lamps. Sometime recycled by owners into spoonholders when self-striking matches
became common. Usually flint glass, short stem, heavy.
6.5" tall Blockade, Challinor, c1885
Part of the 4 piece table set for holding spoons at the table. Most patterns
did not have as tall a stem, if any, as Blockade.
 Sugar
Bowl (Open or Covered)
Belmont, Belmont Glass, 1890
 Sugar Shaker
or Muffineer
Apollo,
 Syrup
Holly, Sandwich, c1870
 Toothpick Holder
Pinwheel, c1900
Late addition to EAPG, most are about 2-3" high. Sometimes
the toy tumblers are mistaken for toothpicks, or salt shakers have been ground
down and renamed "toothpicks".
 Tumbler
(flat & footed)
flat Lens and Star aka Star and Oval, U.S. Glass, c1891
footed Leaf and Dart, Richards & Hartley, c1885
 Vase
Unidentified novelty vase with entwined snake.
 Waste Bowl
Part of a pitcher set. See "Water Tray"
Two Panel, 1880, Richards & Hartley
 Water
Tray
Large, flat tray with rim for use with a pitcher, goblets or tumblers, and
perhaps a waste bowl. Finecut & Panel , Bryce, c1880, blue water set, tray, pitcher, 2
goblets, waste bowl
 Wine
Small, about 4" tall, for sweet wines or cordials.
Rose Sprig, Campbell, 1886
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