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Emporium Auction | January 25, 2024

Thu, Jan 25, 2024 09:00AM EST
Lot 756

Four American Cut and Engraved Glass Bowls

Estimate: $100 - $300

Bid Increments

Price Bid Increment
$0 $25
$100 $50
$1,000 $100
$2,000 $200
$3,000 $250
$5,000 $500
$10,000 $1,000
$20,000 $2,000
$50,000 $5,000
$100,000 $10,000

comprising: rose bowl with strawberry diamond and fan cut decoration, 5 x 5-3/4 in.; bowl with cut floral decoration, base marked "22414-27", 2-1/2 x 9 in.; bowl with hobstars, diamonds, chains of stars, and notched fans, 2-3/8 x 8-7/8 in.; bowl with crossed bar canes, notched split vesicas, hobstars, and fans, possibly H.C. Fry, 4-3/8 x 9 in.

Provenance: Property from the Thomson House, 5th Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, built by Thomas Chalmers Darsie; by descent to Anne Darsie Thomson then to Robert Thomson; Gifted 2014 to Chatham University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Condition

some anomalies and air bubbles; rose bowl with scattered flea bites and some chips to strawberry diamonds and base; floral decorated bowl with discoloration on interior, scratching to base; intricately cut bowl with scattered flea bites, chips to teeth; Fry bowl with scattered flea bites to top edge, flecked chips to outside of one tooth and along vesicas

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Property from the Thomson House, 5th Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, built by Thomas Chalmers Darsie; by descent to Anne Darsie Thomson then to Robert Thomson; Gifted 2014 to Chatham University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania