Amber Glass Help Please

Hi! I have researched these and really haven't come up with a maker on these. I thought they were matching pair but they have different scenes of etched deer on each and one is taller than the other, one is 9 inch and one is 9 3/4 inch without the lids. They are very heavy and thick glass and you can see a couple bubbles in glass. I have seen a couple made by Bohemia. But I don't know if that is the maker. Any help would be great. TIA And also what are they used for?

 

Bohemia is an area not a company. Not sure it was actually a country, maybe a kingdom. Well know for its glass.

This type of glass was produced in Bohemia, mid to late 1800s up to today.

A few years ago I was thumbing through a book and was surprised to find that one of our American companies also did this type of work. I have been racking my brain trying to remember who.

The Specialty Glass Company, which was the predecessor of Westmoreland Glass keeps coming to mind, but I haven't found anything. As I'm typing this, I'm now wondering about Norhtwood. Off to do a little more digging.

 

I see a difference in the animals depicted also...one seems to be deer and the other elk?

 

etching

Referencing Gene Florence, Elegant Glassware of the Depression Era, he shows similar etchings and silver deposit (on black) called Black Forest, he attributes this design to possibly Paden City for Van Deman & Son, late 1920's-early 1930's.
The pattern was produced in amber, black, crystal, green, pink, red and cobalt.
Another similar pattern in the same book is Deerwood or Birch Tree, U.S. Glass Company, late 1920's-early 1930's. Produced in black (with gold deposit), amber green and pink, colors have etched pattern.

 

Wow thank you for all the information you are giving me here. I would also like to add one of them has a looks like a fox or dog in it. Thanks!!!

 

Sorry -This is cut to clear not etched.

Deerwood I believe was a Tiffin pattern. What you are referencing from Florence are later than what I believe this to be.

 

You know this is probably copper wheel engraved, which is a type of cutting.
So I do stand corrected.

 

So is this a pair of lidded candy dishes, please, or...?

 

Gila I don't know what they were used for. These things are huge! You just can't realize how big they are by the picture. Maybe I should take a picture of it beside something so you can see how big they are. I guess you could use as a candy dish. But I wouldn't..to nice for that.

 

I agree with cluttered, this is NOT etched, it is wheel engraved. The subject of the design is most often associated with glass from Bohemia. Egermann is possibly the oldest company to do this kind of work, which dates to the middle of the 1800's. They are still in business today. I am NOT saying yours is Egermann, many companies both in business today and not, have produced glass of this type. I don't know how to tell age.

 

Since they are pair, they may have been intended to sit on a mantel. I don't know that this type of glass was always made with a utilitarian purpose. Sometimes they were made more for decorative purposes.

 

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh... like ornamental glass urns.
Perfect for a man cave mantel...
That sounds very good.

 

The ungulates are a stag (European type of deer). The amber is likely a stain. For me the lack of fine detail says 20th century rather than 19th. When made the mantle would have been in the parlor not a man cave.

 

Thanks everybody for all your replys! I think they are nice. George do you think that would be early 20th century? The bottom says early because of all the scratches. Thanks!

 

maybe a covered goblet; amber cut to clear stag. Saw similar stag motif attributed to Biedermeier...

 

Base scratches can be made at any time intentionally but there generally is a different appearance for those made by slidding it on a shelf over time. I am looing my at design style and changes in popularity of style when I think the first 1/3. Feeling like this are usefull but you need to be open to additional specific evidence that may change an opinion ie catalog pages etc.

 

Just a couple of comments, Biedermyer (however it's spelled) was a style period, ending about 1845. Eggerman was a glass decorating concern (they called them "refineries") who did this style of decoration, copper wheel engraved natural scenes from the 1830s to the present time.
It appear that this piece is amber stained, cut to clear. If the flutes on the stem and finial are any indication, the piece was pressed, not cut as Biedermyer period would have been. Old would have been cut flutes, cut through the stain.
My guess, post WWII, central Europe.