Glass Dessert Set - Sherbet with Underplate - Who Made?

Hello everyone- I picked up these two dessert but have had no luck in determining who made them or when. They look like elegant depression glassware but the sherbets are off-center and the under plates have an edge trim. Any info would be appreciated. Thanks! Don

 

Ruh Roh, I hate to say this, but they look like a marriage. The underplate color looks slightly darker than the sherbets which have a more turquoise tone to them. Is that a trick of the light?

 

Well that certainly would answer a lot of questions. I think the color is the same, though, and the sherbet sit nicely in the indentation. Still a marriage is a possibility.

 

Hi,
I agree about the marriage. The underliner is really a snack set. The indent would be for a cup and the "extra" area for tiny cookies or sweets. The sherbets have a cutting design and are thinner than the plates which have a gadroon molded pattern. I have to go out Ill check my catalogs later.
greg

 

I think the indent is too large for the cups that usually went with snack plates.

 

I do not know who but they look like a dessert set me. Ice cream and cookies or sherbet and some fruit etc.

 

For what little it's worth, the plates are pressed and the sherbets are blown, not a usual combination.

 

I dunno... you could use those underplates for olive pits and little plastic swords and umbrellas and such.

 

the optics in the plate are hard to see here but you might compare to Fry 'Wire Spiral'
http://chataboutdg.com/gallery/img17396.search.htm

 

I do not think of blown stems and pressed plates as being unusual in the elgant glass catagory.

 

If the Stems were Blown, then there would be a Pontil mark on the bottom. If no Pontil mark, they would be pressed glass. They look like they may go together, but the stems could be used for Shrimp Cocktails.

 

It isn't the color that makes me wonder, but the vast difference in design. You'd expect that floral etching would be repeated on the plates. To me, it's jarring.

 

The color goes well together but it is a bit strange that the plates are ribbed and the stems are etched?

Now a days mix & match is not taboo.

 

The sherbets are cut, not etched. They are blown, with or without a pontil mark. In this case the bubble was blown, the stem pulled out and the foot attached, without need of pontil.

 

The presence or absence of a pontil signifieth not whether the thing is hand blown or pressed. Whitefriars, for example, made lovely glasses with nicely fire polished bases or attached feet, as cherry says. Indeed, they made very similar glasses to these.