Pitkin & Brooks "Niagara" Bowl w/Shreve & Co. Sterling Rim

FSG2876

Condition: EF

Price: $975.00

Description:

The elegant sterling rim for this finely-crafted American Brilliant cut glass bowl is touchmarked Shreve & Co.--San Francisco--Sterling.  Shreve & Co., a long-lived, prestigious retailer and manufacturer teamed with Pitkin & Brooks of Chicago, IL to produce this bowl.  The design is shown on a two-piece punchbowl on page 24 of a 1902 Pitkin & Brooks catalog (an ACGA reprint).  Pitkin & Brooks named the design Niagara.   It is very deeply-cut and very well-polished on a clear, water-white blank.  The piece, heavy for its size, weighs 4.6-lbs.  The top rim measures 9-inches in diameter and the bowl stands 4 1/4-inches tall.  An excellent display piece that is unusual because both the sterling and the glass have been identified as to origin.