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I suspect that this was made about 1880-1900. Maker is unknown, but most likely Bohemian manufacture. The name for a three-handled cup is TYG (pronounced TEEG). The three-handled cup dates back to the 17th century, mostly in pottery. (I did a google search and found some info on Wikipedia).
This was made with a small gather of cranberry, followed by a larger gather of vaseline, then blown out into the mold, handles added, then trimmed and polished at the top rim. There is no pontil scar, so the handles were applied prior to the pipe removed from the top. This rubina verde differs slightly in that the red fades slowly. the Hobbs, Brockunier version does a sudden break from one color to the other.
When making rubina verde, the red is ALWAYS at the top. If you have a red and green item, and the green is at the top and the red is at the bottom, it is just red and green glass, not rubina verde. Rubina Verde is always a blown item, with a red gather in the center, followed by a canary/vaseline gather over the top. In this composite photo, you can see that there is a canary/vaseline layer over the red (UV photo).
Photo Donated To Gallery By Mr. Vaseline Glass
(aka: Dave Peterson) |
