Wedgewood Footed Cake Plate And Antique Overshot Glass Pitcher

Wedgewood footed cake plate 9”x6”and a overshot glass pitcher with gold rimm perhaps Boston and Sandwich Glass. Cake plate has some chipping underneath. See photos for details.

From Glass Collectors Digest:
The Boston and Sandwich Glass Company produced overshot pitchers from 1870–1887. The company was located in Sandwich, Massachusetts and produced high-quality decorative glass from 1820–1880. The glass was named after the geographical area where the factory was located.

Overshot glass had its origin in 16th century Venice, and the ability to make this ware eventually spread to Bohemia, Spain and elsewhere in Europe. Sometime prior to 1800, the production of this glass seems to have stopped. The Englishman Apsley Pellatt, owner of the Falcon Glass Works, is credited with reviving this decorative technique around 1845-1850. He acknowledged the origin of the technique by calling his product "Venetian Frosted Glass" or "Anglo-Venetian Glass". Later it would be called by other names, such as Frosted Glassware, ice Glass or Craquelle Glass.

It is important to understand the difference between crackle glass and overshot glass. Two different processes were involved. Crackle glass was produced by dipping a partially blown gob of hot glass in cold water. The sudden temperature change caused fissures or cracks in the glass surface. The gob was then lightly reheated and blown to its full shape. The blowing process enlarged the spaces between fissures to create a labyrinth of channels in varying widths. When cooled in the annealing lehr, the surface of the finished object had a crackled or cracked-ice effect.

Overshot glass was made by rolling a partially or fully inflated gob of hot glass on finely ground shards of glass that had been placed on a steel plate called a marver. The gob was then lightly reheated to remove the sharp edges of the ground glass.

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