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Adams & Company, A Closer Look,
by Jane Shadel Spillman, From: The Glass Club
Bulletin 1990/91
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| Fig 10. Platter in "Sphynx" or
"No. 50" pattern, Adams & Company, 1883-1887, d.
25.5 cm. (89.4.118, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Smeltzer).
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| panels, "Mr. Brothers thought that "Flower
Pot" (Fig. 8) was also an Adams pattern, based on its
resemblance to No. 75; and that is certainly a possibility, although
an unlikely one, as I will show.
Catherine Thuro has already published the July 20, 1882 notice from the AP&GR of the new set of tableware to be known as the "Sphynx set (No. 50)" (Figs. 9 & 10). A further comment in January, 1883, mentions that the pattern had had a "fine run". On Jan. 25, 1883, along with the No. 50 pattern, the AP&GR noted "a new line of tableware, to be known as No. 300....Besides the regular set, it comprises bowls, salvers, comports, nappies and dishes in all sizes. The pitchers of this set are noticeably fine |
and brilliant in appearance, and the fruit bowl with
detachable top is a novelty and very handsome and convenient. The
knob on the covers of the articles in this set is of unique design
and entirely new. In the salvers a flower is inserted in the
base, or they may be had without, if desired." Brothers
identified this as the pattern Lee calls "Clear Ribbon",
shown on Pl. 70 in Early American Pressed Glass. Certainly
the platform base of these pieces is similar to the ones in No. 75,
and the hollow stems would allow for the insertion of ornaments but
this attribution must be regarded as tentative.
A May 3, 1883 issue of the AP&GR gives the original name of the "Vase" and "Applesauce" lamps discussed by Thuro in The Illuminator. |