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Strawberry Diamond Pattern and Motif

Strawberry Diamond Pattern and Motif. Greg Randall. Beginnings . Anglo-Irish/European Heritage Hoare Singleton Hawkes Egginton Anderson Dorflinger Carder Many of the owners, designers and cutters worked throughout the entire Brilliant Period. Patterns.

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Strawberry Diamond Pattern and Motif

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  1. Strawberry DiamondPattern and Motif Greg Randall

  2. Beginnings • Anglo-Irish/European Heritage • Hoare • Singleton • Hawkes • Egginton • Anderson • Dorflinger • Carder • Many of the owners, designers and cutters worked throughout the entire Brilliant Period

  3. Patterns • Not PRIMARILY a means of artistic expression • This is a business: Offer what Sells • Fashion • Fad • Appeal to the wealthy • Stereotypes

  4. Patterns • No concern for consistency or for future ‘collectors’ • Same name for different patterns • Changes to patterns over time or for shape/size of blank • Lack of or inconsistent signatures (used for authentication at the time)

  5. What’s in a name? • American Strawberry Diamond • Cross-cut Diamond • English Strawberry Diamond • Double Cross-cut Diamond • Dorflinger #80 • Pairpoint Madison

  6. American Strawberry Diamond

  7. American Strawberry Diamond • 1860s?-1870 • Frequently a motif, in bands/borders • Seldom – ‘all-over cut’ • 1870s-1880s • Frequently –’all-over cut’ • Frequently cut on base of item • Seldom ‘rayed-star’ base • Also used as a Major Motif in a pattern

  8. American Strawberry Diamond • 1890s-1900 • Still popular - frequently –’all-over cut’ • Usually ‘rayed-star’ base • Frequent use as a Major Motif in a pattern • 1900- • Still popular - frequently –’all-over cut’ • Usually ‘rayed-star’ base • Less frequent use as a Major Motif in a pattern

  9. American Strawberry Diamond • Throughout – used as pressed glass pattern

  10. English Strawberry Diamond

  11. Dorflinger #80

  12. Pairpoint Madison

  13. Strawberry Diamond Pattern • Four miters create the diamond • Size of the ‘flat’ top related to angle and depth of the miters • Cross-cuts perpendicular to the sides of the diamond meet IN THE MIDDLE • “One of the hardest to cut” • “Can cut it in my sleep”

  14. Not all S/D is created equalWhich is harder to do?? • The smaller the ‘flat’, the more difficult

  15. Exercise

  16. Strawberry Diamond

  17. Strawberry Diamond

  18. Strawberry Diamond

  19. Strawberry Diamond

  20. Strawberry Diamond

  21. Strawberry Diamond and Fan

  22. Strawberry Diamond and Fan

  23. Strawberry Diamond and Fan

  24. Strawberry Diamond and Fan

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  26. Strawberry Diamond and Fan

  27. Hawkes Cobweb

  28. Hawkes Devonshire

  29. Dorflinger Colonial

  30. Dorflinger #28

  31. Mt Washington Wheeler

  32. Libbey Harvard

  33. Hoare Oxford

  34. Pairpoint Palace

  35. Sinclaire

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