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South Jersey handblown Pitcher w/ looping c. 1880-1900

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Sold Date: 10/17/2007
Channel: Online Auction
Source: eBay
Category: Glass

South Jersey handblown Pitcher w/ looping c. 1880-1900

Attributed to Whitney Glass Works, Glassboro , NJ

Offered is a pitcher attributed to the Whitney Glass Works in Glassboro , New Jersey , blown by the glassblower who made the "documented" amber Whitney pitcher on Page 267 of Adeline Pepper's Glass Gaffers of New Jersey book. I used the pitcher as a part of a "Real vs. Repro" display quiz at bottle shows last fall. The display and quiz are featured in an article I wrote for the December 2006 issue of Antique Bottle and Glass Collector, using this pitcher and nine other pieces. (A Keene Idea Real Vs. Repro in New England .)

This pitcher stands about 8½ inches tall and is in mint condition. It is made of clear glass, with strong white and faint blue looping, and has a couple of neat waves in the glass. It has an applied plain foot with appropriate wear and a handle identical to a number of pieces in museums in the Delaware Valley and in New England . Two pieces by this same glassblower are in the Winterthur Museum collection in Delaware - an amber pitcher on a pedestal base, and a sapphire blue pitcher with clear lilypad decoration, handle, and applied foot. An example is at Wheaton (amber pitcher with threading around the entire piece - I gave it to them twenty years ago after purchasing it as a Clevenger!) and another at the Bennington, VT Museum is in Richard Carter Barret's book Blown and Pressed American Glass (amber pitcher with white looping - see photo).

We have yet to discover the identity of the glassblower of this and the other pieces. After I purchased the pitcher owned by Adeline Pepper (and shown in her book) in 1991, I attempted to obtain her documentation of the pitcher from her estate, but to no avail. Perhaps the information will be discovered some day. Until then, all we know is that this glassworker made some fine pieces in the South Jersey Tradition.

Over the last fifteen years, I have owned four pitchers by this glassblower, sold at prices ranging from $1100 to $3000, and at least two others selling for much higher. (I later saw one of the four I had at the 1995 Westchester Glass Show selling for $16,000!)

Photos of other pieces by this glassblower are provided so you can compare them to the looped pitcher offered Please also check the Glass gaffers book and Barret's Blown and Pressed American Glass to see the other examples.

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