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Category Archives: Westmoreland

Westmoreland Argonaut Candy Dish

05 Friday Oct 2012

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Animals, Candy Dish, Dolphins, Seashells

I bought this piece in the States.  It turns out that this is a candy dish with a lid (notice I don’t have the lid).  I’d like to purchase it.  It’s a pretty piece, lid or not.  I like the dolphin feet despite their creepy snake look.

I haven’t been able to find out much about this pattern although I know it comes in a number of different colours and in a satin finish as well.  But…here’s some info of interest about the Westmoreland Glass Company from Collectors Weekly.

Westmoreland Mary Gregory – perhaps

03 Friday Feb 2012

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Painted Glass

Sorry for the long post, but this is pretty interesting.    I bought this piece in the U.S last year.  It is very thin glass and has a few chips around the rim.  I normally wouldn’t buy anything with chips but I have long wanted to buy a piece of “Mary Gregory” and they can be pricey.  I gather there are lots of knockoffs.  I do not know the provenance of my glass, but I do like it.  This is all from Wikipedia  –

Mary Gregory (1856–1908) was an American glass painter at the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, Massachusetts  (I’ve been there – Wikipedia doesn’t know that) who helped popularize glass-painting.  She was known for her paintings of Victorian era children, and such

artwork has been referred to as Mary Gregory since the 1920s. However,  the artworks were likely from an earlier era, and the term was probably the result of marketing by the Westmoreland Glass Company. The glass most likely came from Europe. Despite this, many glass art enthusiasts continue to refer to such pieces as Mary Gregory.

The Westmoreland Glass Company of  Pennsylvania began marketing their glasswork as Mary Gregory in the 1920s. They would create glass paintings of Victorian era children in profile, and say it was done in the “style” of Mary Gregory. Westmoreland artists painted the white silhouettes on black milk glass plates, vases, glass boxes, etc. In the 1970s they also painted these scenes on blanks that they called Blue Mist – a semi-opaque glass with a baby blue tint to it. Many pieces of Mary Gregory also show up as Cranberry plates, tumbler sets, goblets, glasses and so on.

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