Mary Gregory, Sandwich Glass Co. Fowler Co. NY 1882 Bicycle Advertising Vases

  

Description: The Price Has Been Reduced For a Quick Sale! This Pair of Mary Gregory. Black Glass Vases Are The Rarest of Them All! Boston and Sandwich Glass Company. These Vases Were Very Dirty and Were Professionally Cleaned, Plus The Gold Trim Was Repainted.

Black Glass Vases Were Created For The. Aubry of Paris Designed a Series of Postcards With 2 Clowns Riding a Bicycle. The Front Wheel is Marked 100 Francs 1879 and The Back Wheel is Dated 1881. Limited in New York Commissioned Donaldson Brothers Five Points, New York to Have Them Reprint a New Advertising Postcard For The Company Using The Aubry of Paris Design. On The Front of The Card Has Advertising For Their Fowlers Adjustable Roll-Up Spring Bed. Advertising on The Wheel of The Postcard Reads The Medal of Excellence E. Fowler For Metallic Spring Mattress 1880. Using The Design of His Advertising. Postcard The Company Commissioned The. To Manufacture These Monumental 12 Inch Tall Free Blown in a Mold Black Glass Vases.

Mary Gregory Was a Designer At The Sandwich Glass Co. The Advertising on The Back of The Fowler Cards Suggest These Vases Were Made in 1882. She Was The Designer of These 2 Beautiful Black Glass Vases. How Many of These Vases Were Produced is Unknown? I Believe These Vases Were Only on Display at Their Stores.

These Vases Are an Important Part of The American Manufacturing History! May 24, 1908 (aged 51-52). Examples of Mary Gregory work.

Known for her decoration of glass products at the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company. Gregory worked for Boston and Sandwich from 1880 to 1884. Gregory painted lamps and plaques of landscape scenes during her years at B&SGC.

Gregory was born in Providence, Rhode Island to John Gregory and Hannah A. Her mother was a school teacher in Sandwich, Massachusetts. And Mary worked as a teacher as well from 1876 to 1879, but soon abandoned teaching to work for the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company. As a glass decorator, beginning in January 1880. She was particularly well known for her paintings of Victorian-era.

Children, and such artwork has been referred to as Mary Gregory since the 1920s. The glass most likely came from Bohemia.

Despite this, many glass art enthusiasts continue to refer to such pieces as Mary Gregory. Glassware in the style of Mary Gregory continued after her tenure at the Boston and Sandwich glass factory from 1880 to 1884. Bowey in The Glass Encyclopedia describes the distinguishing features of Mary Gregory glass as stylised white enamel painting usually of a child in an outdoor setting, playing with such things as butterfly nets, bubbles, fishing rods, or hoops. The trees and foliage often have a typical "feathered" style, the figure is oddly old-fashioned in its proportions, and the enamel is fired onto the glass. 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 cherubic white silhouettes on black milk glass plates, vases, glass boxes, heart-shaped plates, et cetera. In the 1970s, they also painted these scenes on blanks that they called Blue Mist - a semi-opaque glass with a baby blue. Many pieces of Mary Gregory also show up as Cranberry. Gregory, her sister, and possibly others she had trained, used a white enamel paint.

With ground glass as a paint mixture. To bind the paint to the glass, they fired it after application. It was fused with the piece in this manner so the painting became part of the glass. Similar artwork was made by literally dozens of glass houses, and some, such as Fenton, continue to this day.

The Vases Come With 3 French Advertising Chromo Trade Card, At The Circus Riding a Bicycle, Acrobats with Old French Coins. Dated 1879 & 1881 on The Wheels. Please view all the photos before purchasing, they complete the description. While I do my best to reproduce the true colours of the pieces, they will vary slightly from system to system, and in actual viewing they will vary under differing lighting. All white spots are light reflections or lint.

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