Late1800's Dakota or Baby Thumbprint Celery Vase - Fern & Berry Etch

Collectibles : Other Than Carnival Collectibles

 

This is a very old and very elegant celery vase made in the late1800's. This is the Dakota Pattern with the Fern & Berry Etch. This pattern is also known as Baby Thumbprint. The Dakota pattern was first made by Ripley & Company in1880 and then by U. S. Glass in 1898.

This lovely piece stands 8” tall, with a 3 ½” opening, and a 3 5/8” base diam. There is no damage. Condition is excellent.

Some Interesting info about Celery Vases:

Rare and very expensive in 19th-century America, celery was considered a luxury food - something to be enjoyed only by the wealthy or those who aspired to high society. Like other luxury foods of the time, celery was presented at the dinner table in the finest silver or cut glass. At the height of celery's prominence in the late 19th century, hosts proudly displayed the noble vegetable in vases. The celery vase from around 1870 on, carried the look of expensive cut glass but was far less expensive, having been made of pressed glass before it was cut and engraved. As celery's cultural cachet declined, however, so did its relative prominence at the table. The tall-standing celery vases popular in the 1880s gave way to low celery dishes when technological advances began to produce a new, easy-to-grow variety of celery. As celery plummeted from the heights of rarity and luxury, its stature literally fell. Virtually no celery vases remained by the turn of the 20th century.

Item ID: 0802-565