LARGE AMERICAN BRILLIANT CUT CRYSTAL LONG BOWL ELEGANT

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LARGE AMERICAN BRILLIANT CUT CRYSTAL LONG BOWL ELEGANT

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Sold Date: 02/18/2007
Channel: Online Auction
Source: eBay
Category: Glass

Description:

American Brilliant cut crystal long bowl; 15"W. No chips, teeth perfect, NO nicks, NO damage. Wonderful!!!

American Brilliants showed their beautiful wares at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. Rail transportation brought record attendance to our nation's hundredth 'birthday party', and throngs were captivated by elegant cut glass tableware, lamps, perfume bottles and other fine products on display. A boom was sparked that lighted the might glass furnaces throughout the northeast, and the Brilliant Period had indeed begun. Stunning new patterns quite unlike earlier European designs were developed and patented. Patterns were given intriguing names, and American Brilliant's began advertising campaigns urging collection of whole sets of goblets, tumblers, wine glasses and finger bowls in the new designs. Cutting shops proliferated to meet the demand for fine pieces of cut glass being sought by wealthy American households. The blossoming industry received another boost at the 1889 Paris Exposition when grand prizes were awarded to the T. G. Hawkes Company of Corning, New York for two patterns named Grecian and Chrysanthemum. Worldwide acclaim immediately followed, breaking for good the specter of European superiority. Just four years later at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Popularity increased and huge sets of American cut glass tableware were ordered by the White House, by the presidents of Mexico and Cuba, by Edward VII of Great Britain, and by many industrial tycoons of the day. American cut glass had reached the zenith in its acceptance throughout the world. It had no peers.