6527 Fenton PRAYER RUG 6" Two-Handle Four-Sides-Up Custard Glass Bonbon

Description

PRAYER RUG. Custard Glass Four-Sides-Up Two-Handle 6" Bonbon, circa 1915, in excellent undamaged antique condition. This pattern often received Goofus cold-painted decoration.
EAPG - CUSTARD
Early American Pattern Glass
PRAYER RUG
Custard Glass Four-Sides-Up Two-Handle 6" Bonbon, circa 1915, in excellent undamaged antique condition. This pattern often received Goofus cold-painted decoration.
EAPG
is shorthand for Early American Pattern Glass, which is also known simply as 'pattern glass', 'pressed glass', or 'Victorian glass'. It is generally pressed glass tableware sets and novelty items with embossed or intaglio patterns made during the Victorian period ca. 1850-1910, by hundreds of glass factories. EAPG includes many different types of glass (crystal or flint, opalescent, cased, custard),  some decorated with Ruby Flash or Ruby Stain, Gilt, Blue or Nutmeg Stain or, in the case of 'Goofus' either all-over painted or pattern-painted. EAPG was succeeded by iridized 'Carnival Glass' (1907-1930s), and then in the 1930s and 40s by what is now referred to as 'Depression Glass'.
Custard Glass
, which was introduced to America ca. 1895, was produced by most of the major glass makers; by at least one until 1930.  It derives its name from the custard-like color of the glass, ranging from yellow-green to ivory or milky white.  Custard Glass contains Uranium Dioxide as a colorant, so it fluoresces under ultra-violet (black) light.  Many pieces were decorated by "staining" with nutmeg (brown), blue, red, or green to accent the design. Others were painted with enamel, and/or accented with gilt. Some had all three enhancements.
Excellent Antique Condition
means that a
listed
item has no discernible post-production damage but may have one or more of the following issues related to the production methods and conditions in the early 1900s: air bubbles not squeezed out by hand-pressing; inclusions of ash or debris from dirty conditions;
strands of undissolved colorant; lines called
straw marks where molten glass was snipped with cool metal shears from the gathering rod, hardened immediately and mixed into the glass like dried paint; marks from shaping tools used to form the edge; mould issues such as incomplete or malformed edges,
rough seams, extra glass at seams, webbed, incomplete or pulled edge points; cooling issues such as
uneven legs or a bowed base causing rocking; heat checks which are internal separations from uneven cooling or burst air bubbles, etc. While these issues may be undesirable, they do not qualify as "damage".
Combined Shipping
is offered for both domestic and international shipment of multiple purchases. All items are bubble wrapped and cushioned with peanuts; no tape is used on the bubble wrap. Cartons are
labeled GLASS or FRAGILE, and
shipped in one business day; if I'm away then ASAP upon return.
All shipments are insured. International shipments will travel via USPS Priority Mail International for insurance and tracking purposes. The declared customs value will be the actual purchase price plus, in some cases, the actual shipping charge.  Please do not ask for designation as a 'gift' or for a less-than-purchase-price value.
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