This is the beautiful and highly desirable Rose Show ruffled bowl in iridized aqua opal glass by Northwood Glass, circa
1912-1914.
(Photo taken outdoors with no flash.)
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.
(Close-up photo taken with no flash.)
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.
(Photo taken indoors on black granite background with no flash.)
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}
