Fenton #847 Blue Aquamarine MELON RIB Stretch Glass Footed Bowl-1926

Description

Fenton Blue Aquamarine Stretch Glass Footed Bowl
We are pleased to offer this lovely
Aquamarine stretch glass melon rib bowl #847 manufactured by the Fenton Art Glass Company circa 1926. This bowl is pictured on page 64 of William Heacock's "Fenton Glass: The First Twenty-Five Years" reference guide. This footed flared bowl features 8 melon panels with embossed ribs.
It measures 7-1/2" at the top and 3-1/4" at the round base. It stands 2-3/4" tall. It has a few slight manufacturing straw marks in the glass; otherwise it  is in excellent condition - no serious faults found. The striated iridescent coloring is even more beautiful in person than it appears in the photo.  Just a highly collectible piece of vintage Fenton Stretch Glass that you are sure to want to add to your collection.
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For Your Information:
Nearly a dozen shapes were made using this mold, including a covered candy jar with a flower knob. This mold has been used in recent times, but all new pieces are marked "F" for Fenton.. Stretch glass was made by a number of American glass factories from about 1916 to the early 1930's. It was either pressed or blown into molds. When the piece of glass was still hot from the mold -- it was sprayed with metallic salts to give the surface iridescence. It was then reheated and "worked" in some way (flared out, cupped in or crimped, etc.). The working of the glass "stretched" the iridescent surface and produced an "onion skin" effect. See the photograph of the edge of the blue stretch glass plate on the right. You can see how pronounced this effect can be! Some pieces of stretch glass will have very obvious "stretchmarks". Other pieces that have not been worked as much will have
very fine "stretchmarks". Stretch glass differs from carnival glass in two distinct ways. Carnival glass was "worked" first and then iridized -- and carnival glass was heavily patterned while stretch glass has little or no pattern.
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