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Glassware Collection - Worcestershire Museum of Freemasonry
A large ovoid bowl charging glass. Mid 18th century.
WMLMT Classification:- Firing Glass
Description
"Date: Mid 18th century.
Origin: English.
Style: An unusually large and heavy ovoid bowl shape wine charging glass. The bowl is thick rimmed. Some striations. 8.8cm in diameter.
Stem: Short plain stub.
Foot: Flat spread.Thick foot 1.5cm. 9.5cm in diameter.
Pontil: Snapped."
Properties
"Glass: Clear lead.
Height: 11.6 cm.
Weight: 713 grams.
Condition: Very good given its age. A number of flea bites to the bowl rim. Numerous scratches to the bowl and a minor tooling mark near the rim and a manufacturing mark where the foot has been joined to the stem. A long thin air trap unburst 1.5cm long in the foot. Some very small air bubbles. Much of this to be expected with a piece of this age. It has been well used and by virtue of its robustness it has survived. A good piece."
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