Mary Gregory Large Carafe
Large Mary Gregory carafe, with two figures, white enamel on ruby glass. A rare example. Victorian, 19cms in height. Ground pontil
Large Mary Gregory carafe, with two figures, white enamel on ruby glass. A rare example. Victorian, 19cms in height. Ground pontil
Large Mary Gregory carafe, with two figures, white enamel on ruby glass. A rare example. Victorian, 19cms in height. Ground pontil
Mary Gregory Glass is one of the few items that has never lost its appeal since we started dealing in 1967.
The concept of ‘Mary Gregory’ glass; children at play painted on white enamel on coloured or clear glass seems to have originated in Europe around the 1870s, more particularly in Bohemia and Germany.
For a long time though it was believed to have originated on the USA, specifically at the Boston and Sandwich glass company where it was painted by a woman called Mary Gregory, and employee of the company. The story eventually was debunked by serious research, but it was too late and the name stuck.
The ‘old’ Mary Gregory was manufactured from 1870s to around the second world war, but, probably due to its constant popularity, there was a second ‘period’ of manufacturing from the late 1950s in the USA, and probably in some European countries.