Hawkes Ruby-to-Clear Claret

FSG2151

Condition: BTEF

Price: $495.00

Description:

Page 160 of Feller's Book on Dorflinger says it all!  "Table setting of colorless glass, including a cranberry overlay hock wine, cut in the "Russian" pattern at T.G. Hawkes, Corning, NY on Dorflinger's best metal blanks.  Until 1904, Hawkes purchased all its cutting blanks from C. Dorflinger & Sons and continued making occasional purchases until World War I -- Collection of the Corning Museum of Glass."  It shows a set of wines and a fingerbowl with underplate.  All the pieces are clear except this exact wine which is incorrectly called a hock wine.

This ruby-to-clear claret stands 4 1/2-inches tall and has a top diameter of 2 3/4-inches; the base has a 48-point radiant star with varied-length rays.  The faceted knob under the bowl has an air trap that extends down through the six-sided, unnotched stem.  The top and bottom rims are original.