Antique Carnival Ware Glass Dish


Item Number: 164

Time Left: CLOSED

Value: $45

Online Close: Nov 30, 2016 6:00 PM PST

Bid History: 1 bid - Item Sold!





Description

Carnival glass is moulded or pressed glass, always with a pattern and always with a shiny, metallic, iridescent surface shimmer.  This dish has a flirty scalloped edge in 8 lobes and is the perfect piece to brighten up your coffee table or mantle.


"Carnival glass has been known by many other names in the past: aurora glass, dope glass, rainbow glass, taffeta glass, and disparagingly as 'poor man's Tiffany'. Its current name was adopted by collectors in the 1950s from the fact that it was sometimes given as prizes at carnivals, fetes & fairgrounds. However, that can be misleading as people tend to think that all of it was distributed in this way but evidence suggests that the vast majority of it was purchased by the housewife to brighten up the home at a time when only the well off could afford bright electric lighting."


 


Dimensions


8.75" Diameter x 3.5" Deep

Special Instructions

Shipping cost not included.

Donated by

Laurie Ludwig