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Classic Northwood Glass
ROSE SHOW
Aqua Opalescent
8-Ruffled Bowl

Approximate Dimensions:
8¾"(Diameter) x
2¾" (Height) x
3 3/8" (Base Diameter)

Made by
Harry C. Northwood Glass Company
Wheeling, West Virginia
ca 1912-1914

Source:  Heacock, William, James Measell, & Berry Wiggins (1991), Harry Northwood: The Wheeling Years 1901-1925.  Antique Publications: Marietta, OH.

This is the beautiful and highly desirable Rose Show  ruffled bowl in iridized aqua opal glass by Northwood Glass, circa 1912-1914.

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Northwood Rose Show Aqua Opal Ruffled Bowl ca 1912

The bowl features three high relief roses on the interior bottom and the classic woven-style exterior. The mould-work on this pattern was highly intricate and truly amazing.


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Northwood Rose Show Aqua Opal Ruffled Bowl ca 1912

A Northwood Rose Show bowl is pictured on p. 92 of Harry Northwood: The Wheeling Years 1901-1925 by William Heacock, James Measell, and Berry Wiggins.  It is speculated that George Mortimer designed the Rose Show pattern.

Very Brief Background on Northwood & Dugan.  Thomas Dugan and his cousin, Harry C. Northwood, started out in the 1880s as employees at the Hobbs-Brockunier Glass firm in Wheeling, West Virginia.  Eventually, Harry would form the Northwood Glass Company of Wheeling, West Virginia and Thomas would form the Dugan Glass Company of Indiana, Pennsylvania.  Both companies were kingpins of the carnival and opalescent glass market in the early 1900's.  Trading, swapping, or "borrowing" one another's glass moulds has been speculated.  Both Northwood and Dugan-Diamond Glass shut down in the mid-1920s.

Condition.  This bowl is in excellent condition, with no chips, cracks or restorations.

No roughness on the rim or on the relief roses. 

The iridescence is wonderful, the coloring is soft and pastel, the high points spectacular.

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Northwood Rose Show Aqua Opal Ruffled Bowl ca 1912

There are, of course, the usual minor straw marks ("shearing tool marks") and internal air bubbles from manufacturing commonly associated with the making of old EAPG, carnival, and opalescent glass.

Each and every piece of old carnival and opalescent glass is hand finished which means they are all unique.  No two pieces of old carnival and opalescent glass are identical.

... a truly wonderful find!

... would look great alongside any Northwood, Dugan, Jefferson,  Millersburg, Fenton, Westmoreland, Imperial, or other antique glass from the makers of fine opalescent, carnival glass, and EAPG.



Sold by DesertGold.US {May 2020, $660}

(Photo taken outdoors with no flash.)
Northwood Rose Show Aqua Opal Ruffled Bowl ca 1912

(Photo taken outdoors with no flash.)
Northwood Rose Show Aqua Opal Ruffled Bowl ca 1912

(Photo taken outdoors with no flash.)
Northwood Rose Show Aqua Opal Ruffled Bowl ca 1912
(Photo taken indoors with no flash.)
Northwood Rose Show Aqua Opal Ruffled Bowl ca 1912


Sold by DesertGold.US {May 2020, $660}