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Freeform Handkerchief "End Of Day" Art Glass Vase
Freeform Handkerchief 'End Of Day' Art Glass Vase

Freeform Handkerchief "End Of Day" Art Glass Vase

Winning Bid
on 11/13/19
$37.00
Item #496784
Lot #13 of 131
Item Description

This is an absolutely remarkable example of functional art. The vibrant interior of canary yellow glass provide a stark contrast to the vases' multicolored exterior. Flowers or not, a statement piece in the "end of day" glass style.

Discussion of End-of-day Glass:
"End of day" glass was any item made by the glassworkers in their own time at the end of the day using up the remaining molten glass in the pots. It therefore tended to be a mixture of all sorts of colours. Another name for the same kind of item was a "frigger". Sometimes these were fun items, like walking sticks or animals made of glass. Sometimes they were items for the glassworkers own home; and sometimes they were for sale.

In some parts of Britain (Nailsea and Stourbridge for example) the glassworkers made friggers in their own time on Saturday's and displayed them in a parade on the Sunday.

However, over the years the name "end of day" glass has been applied to any glass item which has colours "marvered in", that is specks of coloured glass that have been laid out on a table or "marver" and rolled into the hot glass, then melted in, like the item on the left. The names "spatter glass" or "spangle glass" or "Nailsea glass" are applied to glass that has specks of colour marvered into the hot glass and these kinds of glass are often called "end-of-day glass".

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