{"id":2870,"date":"2013-10-10T05:44:48","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T09:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/?p=2870"},"modified":"2020-04-20T17:08:57","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T21:08:57","slug":"red-flashed-rose-bowl-with-a-cornflower-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/?p=2870","title":{"rendered":"Red Flashed Rose Bowl with a Cornflower Cut"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Cornflower<\/a>This is how The Encyclopedia of Glass (Mark Pickvet) defines flashing or flashed glass:<\/p>\n

“A very thin applied exterior coating of a different color from the base color (thinner than a casing or an overlay). \u00a0Flashing is usually completed by dropping a gather of hot glass of one color into a pot or crucible that contains a different\u00a0color in such a manner as to cause only a thin layer to adhere.”<\/p>\n

You can’t see the flashing in the photo, but it is a shiny orangey coating on top of the red.<\/p>\n

When you buy flashed glass, you want to make sure that the coating isn’t scratched.<\/p>\n

This piece has a “Made in Canada” sticker. \u00a0It is not a piece of W.J. Hughes Cornflower. \u00a0Hughes did not use flashing in production.<\/p>\n

There was a glasscutter named R. G. Sherriff who had worked for Hughes, but left the company to start up his own business in Toronto. \u00a0He cut a very similar pattern uner the guise of Crystalware. \u00a0Hughes and Sherriff were in litigation over Hughes assertions that Sherriff had violated his rights.<\/p>\n

Anyway…the long an short of it is that I have no idea if Sherriff cut this or not.\u00a0 Could be someone else’s.\u00a0 It’s pretty …so I picked it up in Cobourg a couple weeks ago.<\/p>\n