Vaseline Opalescent Glass Elephant Console Bowl #Y65

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Vaseline Opalescent Glass Elephant Console Bowl #Y65

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Sold Date: 04/15/2007
Channel: Online Auction
Source: eBay
Category: Glass

Out of my own Vaseline Glass collection comes this truly stunning Vaseline Opalescent Console Bowl in the old Exact Shipping will be based on the zipcode of the items destination. Please use the shipping calculator inserted in the listing. Fill in with your zipcode and the calculator will figure the EXACT shipping. NO Guessing ! If you have any other questions please don't hesitate to ask. Thanks for choosing to do business with us and good luck with your bidding. We will do everything we can to make this a pleasant Ebay experience for you. Tom...Patty and Paul "Elephant" pattern. You might ask... "Why sell it???..." Well... I'll be 70 years old this month... and my collection includes thousands of pieces that I've chosen very carefully over the past 50 or so years. I hate letting some of these beauties "slip through my fingers"... as much as I hate to see that big "seven zero" come up!!!... But being a realistic person... I must face the facts. It's time for someone else to enjoy these treasures!!!...

So... let me tell you what we have !!!... This beauty should be of interest to all you Vaseline Glass collectors... as well as anyone that loves "Elephants". This is an outstanding... large piece of Vaseline Opalescent Glassware... that might just make a few hears... SKIP-A-BEAT!!!... This large... Vaseline Opalescent Glass... "Elephant" pattern... Console Bowl... looks as though it might have just come through a "time machine"... after being plucked from the dinning room table of a wealthy Victorian family's home. Big... bold... beautiful... and simply oozes character.

This bowl stands 5 & ½ inches tall... 8 & ½ inches across the top... and 12 inches handle to handle. The glass color is Vaseline Opalescent. It's alive with color when standing in the natural light... and explodes with fluorescence when placed under the black light. The Vaseline body glass looks to be of exceptionally high quality and the generous serving of Opalescence is just the "Icing on the Cake"!!!... The bowl appears to be in perfect condition believe this pattern was simply called... the "The 11 inch Elephant Bowl with Candleholders"... and was first available from the Westmoreland Glass Company in 1932... in crystal and "colors".

A total of 54 "cascading panels" comprise the top of the bowl... and if I've counted correctly... 18 more are visible on the "footed" base. Each handle is an intricate "Elephant's" head... with it's delicate trunk curving down around... and reattaching to the lower portion of the bowl to form a handle. On the top of each Elephant heads is a tapered opening for placing candles. I understand that "mold" for this Bowl was made... and first put into production in 1932... and was an original Westmoreland Glass Company mold. However... this Bowl has no maker's mark on it that I can find. In my fifty odd years of working with... and collecting glassware... I seem to find as many glass makers did not mark their wares... as those that did. And I've often had two identical pieces... one with a maker's mark... and the other without. Often molds were swapped or sold between companies... as were finished pieces... and a makers marks incorporated into the mold hindered such transactions. And furthermore... oohhh... I'm rambling on again!!!... Anyhow... this is just a gorgeous piece of Vaseline Glass... and one that I'm sure you'll be proud to display. Miss this beauty and you'll be upset with yourself for years to come!!!... And we sure wouldn't want that to happen now would we???...

I've always loved Elephants... and I've always loved Vaseline Glass... so it's needless to say... I sure have loved this gorgeous... Vaseline Opalescent Glass Elephant Console Bowl!!!... How about you???...

I might also mention that Vaseline glass has becoming quite scarce in the marketplace. This is due primarily to tighter controls government has placed on the use of a key ingredient... uranium... that is needed to make this color of glass. Uranium is also employed in the production of armor piercing shells used b...