Help please! Can't find much info on these glasses

hello!

Please can someone point me in the right direction regarding some glasses I've just bought. I have looked on Google and all I can find are flip glass examples (I have a couple of original beakers with rough pontils). However these are a champagne type, and have a crystal ring to them. Pontils are domed and not rough. I've looked at Stiegel glass sites but i think these are too modern. I have a set of 6. Thanks so much

 

Look like they have a folded foot and with that engraving I'm going to say could be Murano, although I would expect Murano pieces to have rough cut pontils ..so IDK!

 

thank you! They just feel too modern. I bought a collection of this type of glass and some of it included thicker "flip" beakers with rough pontils that are most likely 19th century or older, but these are an enigma. Perhaps copies of old style?

 

Odd. I don't thnk made on Murano, given they're soda glass. Engraving looks almost Bohemian or perhaps Scandi.

 

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vintage-french-biot-pale-green-bubble-1809371686
Any help? Do they glow under UV? They look like they might!

 

I thought soda glass with bubbles and that type of shallow etching was Mexican?

 

Soda glass was made by many companies. Biot, for example.

 

I agree the glass is soda-lime. The bubbles were created by adding powdered chalk to the molten glass to create a sporadic distribution of bubbles of different sizes rather than being controlled & uniform in shape... OR, used glass bottles were used/melted down and the bubbles were caused by impurities. The glass foot appears to have been lathe-turned, rather than spun-out by hand. As for the name of engraver or sandblaster, it could be anybody and not necessarily an artist from the glass producing factory. The guy sitting & wearing a hat, looks to me as being sat upon a Chinese Junk/boat, which may also indicate its country of origin, perhaps?

Given the brittle nature of soda glass, together with the bubbles upon/within the top-edge rim of the cocktail/martini glass, and the wall-thickness, there will come a point in its history when splinters/flea-bites will occur.

 

The bubbles go to the rim surface. It's weird when you look at them because bubbles break at the top and there are little "dips" In the rim and the foot . The ship is dutch and there are Stiegel glass equivalents that look the same. I think either USA or European. It's the date I'm not sure about.

 

Let's see the underside of the foot

 

Please see attached images of the foot. It's very slightly domed but so hard to show. No rough pontils or T marks which is why I think they must be modern. They are very good quality and have a lovely ring to them unlike the genuine beakers I have that do have pontil scars. I have attached 2 images (last 2) of beaker and base for reference.

Thanks

 

Just a quick update. I have watched a few videos and I think they might be late 1890s / turn of the century! There was a good description of the type of pontil they have and this puts them to around this date. They are lovely glasses whatever! Now deciding whether to keep or sell!!​

 

Not seeing a folded foot after all.

 

I believe your second foot image shows a ground and polished pontil under 2 cm wide in the center.