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998.056 Newport Pattern Low Bowl by Hoare

by Gerry LaCroix  

The low bowl shown in Figure 1 is ACGA Collection inventory #998.056.  It was cut in the Newport pattern by J.Hoare around 1911 and was donated to the ACGA collection in 1998. 

Figure 1.  

The pattern depicts an all-over cutting of hobstars and clusters of hobstars along with notching, cross-cuts and strawberry diamond.  The overall effect is one of elegance and style with both linear and non-linear geometric motifs.   

There are four major bell-shaped miters at right angles to one another that define an area containing two elongated ovals.  Two sets of parallel miters complete the design’s outline. 

 The bowl is signed with the J. Hoare & Co. Corning 1853 signature and measures 10 inches in diameter and 2 1/2 inches high at the bowl’s rim. 

 Additional information on this low bowl may be found in the ACGA’s reprint of Hoare’s 1911 catalog, page 117.  There the low bowl is identified as a dish and was available in 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10-inch diameters. 

 Price wise, the Newport pattern was not the most expensive produced by Hoare; however, it was one of the most beautiful. 

 The 1911 prices for the low bowl in the dimensions iterated above were:  $2.30, $2.80, $5.00, $6.90, $9.15 and $12.50 each, respectively.  These prices are about one-third of Hoare’s top of the line Kohinoor design. 

The Newport pattern was cut on several shapes and in several sizes, including bowls, celery dishes, two-part and comport footed punch bowls, sugars and creamers, and ice cream trays.  The ACGA reprint of the Hoare 1911 catalog depicts the Newport pattern on these shapes. 

A picture of a 12-inch two-part punch bowl in Hoare’s Newport pattern may be found in “Handbook for American Cut Glass”, p. 57, by Bill and Louise Boggess. 

Arguably, the most impressive versions of this pattern may be found on the claret decanter and large urn-shaped vase pictured below in Figures 2a and b. 

 The vase, cut in 1906 from a Union Glass Co. blank, is 14 inches in diameter at its widest point and weighs 38 lbs.  (Reference:  ACGA Membership Directory, October 1994, p. 34)

The Newport decanter and vase are 20 and 22 inches high, respectively.  (Reference:  “The American Cut Glass Industry, T.G. Hawkes and his Competitors” by Jane Shadel Spillman, p. 30.) 

Figure 2A Figure 2B

Fig. 3 shows a 9-inch diameter deep bowl in Hoare’s Newport pattern with a beaded sterling silver rim hallmarked Gorham.  (Reference:  ACGA Member Directory 2003, p. 64.)

Figure 3

Notice that Hoare’s Newport pattern shows up very differently on the decanter, vase and deep bowl than it does on the low bowl (Fig. 1).  This is also true for the other shapes described in Hoare’s 1911 catalog. 

 Several companies (e.g., Averbeck, Bergen , Blackmer, Buffalo , Clark and Hawkes) produced a Newport pattern.  However, these differ from Hoare’s Newport , as well as from one another. 

 In addition to the ACGA reprint of Hoare’s 1911 catalog, the following references are useful in researching the various Hoare and non-Hoare Newport patterns:

1.  “Encyclopedia of American Cut and Engraved Glass”, Vol. III, p. 61 and 157, by J. Michael Pearson;
2.  “American Cut Glass for the Discriminating Collector”, p. 113, by J. Michael and Dorothy T. Pearson;
3.  “American Cut and Engraved Glass”, p. 65 and 218, or “Encyclopedia of American Cut and Engraved Glass”, p. 70 and 190, by Albert Chris tian Revi;
4.  “Reflections on American Brilliant Cut Glass”, p. 115, by Bill and Louise Boggess;
5.  ACGA reprint of Maple City 1909 and 1911 catalogs, p. 17 and 20, respectively;
6.  ACGA reprint of Bergen 1904 catalog, p. 27, 28, 30, 38 and 70;
7.  ACGA reprint of Blackmer catalog, p. 20;
8.  ACGA reprint of Clark 1905 catalog, p. 22;
9.  “Collecting American Brilliant Cut Glass, p. 131, by Bill and Louise Boggess; and
10.  “The Complete Cut and Engraved Glass of Corning ”, p. 34, 44 and 115, by Estelle F. Sinclaire and Jane Shadel Spillman. 

 Additional references for non-Hoare Newport patterns may be found in the four-book series of “Cut Glass Advertisements”, edited by Robert J. Smith, II and Valerie K. Smith. 

These include:
1.  The Bawo and Dotter ad in the B&D Bulletin of 5/15/1899 ;
2.  Several ads by Bergen in the Jewelers’ Circular Weekly ( 2/6/1901 , p. 109), Crockery & Glass Journal (no date, p. 30; 2/1900, p. 6; and 2/14/1901 , p. 30), and Keystone ( 2/6/1901 , p. 109); and
3.  An ad by Herrfeldt in the Pottery, Brass and Glass Salesman of 2/2/1910 . 

Contact Walter Poeth (530-873-6608) or Leon Torline (620-227-8154) for information about adding cut glass to the ACGA Collection.  If you can provide additional information about this piece, or would like to help catalog pieces in the ACGA Collection, contact Ken Howe, (859-331-8954), kenhowe@fuse.net.

       

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