Northwood Opalescent Blue Glass \"Peacock on the fence\" Marigold Bowl 1910
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Northwood Opalescent Blue Glass \"Peacock on the fence\" Marigold Bowl 1910:
$850.00
YOU ARE BEING OFFERED:highly sought after pieceof Northwood Opalescent Glass \"Peacock on the Fence\" produced about1910
SIZE: 9\" x 2 1/4\" to 3\" : note that one side is slightly higher thanthe other as it came from factory.
CONDITION: this is an antique piece of glass and as suchis old. My opinion is that this piece is in excellent condition. I could not seeor feel any chips, cracks or repairs.
Please see photos, we placed the bowl on different backgrounds to showbeautiful nuances of blue you can get from this unique piece of art.
PROVENIENCE: bowl was probably acquired new or nearthe time of production. Since that time it has either been on a shelf or in abox in storage. It is a single piecethat comes from the estate of a very knowledgeable collector with an expansive collectionof American hand blown and pressed glass between the colonial period and1925. We are the sole agents of thiscollection that is to be offered.
HISTORY: Harry Northwood immigrated to the USA fromEngland in 1881 and applied for US citizenship in 1886,and received it in 1889.In 1882-83, HarryNorthwood was listed as a glass etcher in Calling’s Wheeling Directorwhere he was working for Hobbs, Brockunier & Company, Wheeling WV.
Northwood glass was made by the H. Northwood Co.,founded in Wheeling, West Virginia, in 1901 by Harry Northwood. He worked forthe Hobbs-Brockunier and LaBelle firms in the 1880s before operating his ownglass plants in Martins Ferry, Ohio, and Ellwood City and Indiana,Pennsylvania. At the Wheeling factory, Harry Northwood and his brother Carlmanufactured pressed and blown tableware and novelties in many colors that arecollected today as custard, opalescent, goofus, carnival, and stretch glass.Harry Northwood died in 1919, and the plant closed in 1925.
Quoting, KyleHusfloen in Collector\'s Guide to American Pressed Glass, 1825-1915, KrausePublications, Iola, 1992P: page 182: \"AfterNorthwood\'s death the factory carried on for some years, but finally the endcame in late 1925. With the closing of the last Northwood factory, an importantera in pressed and nold-blown glass production came to the end. The eraprobably will never be rivalled in the quality, innovation, and beauty of itsglassware for the American table.\"
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Northwood Opalescent Blue Glass \"Peacock on the fence\" Marigold Bowl 1910:
$850.00