Lined Lattice vases
by Joan Doty
Copyright Joan Doty, G&S Thistlewood and T Fuhrman
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Lined Lattice is a wonderfully pleasing
little vase where the pattern is the vase – the bottom ring of lattices projects out, or sometimes
down, to form the little feet, and the top ring of lattices becomes the nine flames.
The pattern predates the carnival era,
having been produced by Northwood in opalescent, non-iridised glass and called “Palisades”
(produced at the Indiana , PA factory, which was to become the Dugan Glass Co, in 1904). These
opalescent pieces have a wide variety of elaborately shaped tops – but none of them were swung.
It’s easy to understand why they weren’t – there is no collar base on which to clamp the snap for
swinging.
Obviously Dugan devised some method of
swinging the iridescent vases, for they are found anywhere from 4¾” to 16” tall. Many shades of
amethyst, from pale amethyst all the way through black amethyst, white, marigold and peach
opalescent are the usual colours. The opalescence in the short peach opals is sometimes quite
heavy, extending all the way to the base in the thicker areas of the pattern. Rich peach
iridescence showing through from the interior produces a dramatic little vase - as seen on the
squatty vase on the left.
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Inexplicably, there were three entirely different moulds for these
vases.
One, with triangular feet (top left), has the mould seam through
the centres of three of the nine feet. These vases tend to rest solidly on the flat base, with the
little feet projecting out. Another mould, also with
triangular feet, has the three mould seams between the feet.
The lattices on these often project down and the vase rests just on the points of these
lattices.
Yet another mould, this one requiring its own exclusive marie, has
rectangular feet (bottom left). These rectangular feet are similar to the ones on Dugan’s Grape Delight rose
bowls, although Grape Delight has six feet and Lined Lattice nine. These vases with rectangular
feet, sometimes referred to as square toes, are larger, heavier vases than the smaller, more
delicate, triangular feet vases. It is unusual to see a Lined Lattice with triangular feet taller
than about 12”, but it is these larger square toed vases that are usually found in the 11” to 16”
height range – when they are found at all. If one should happen to be found, it will most likely
have chipped feet. Amethyst seems to be their usual colour, sometimes with spectacular blue
iridescence, and an occasional marigold.
The base diameter ranges between 3" and 3¾",
depending on the type of feet and how far up on pointe the vase stands. Mrs. Hartung (Book III-20) was the one
who named the Carnival pattern Lined Lattice.
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On the far left: purple swung
Lined Lattice vase with triangular feet alongside a line drawing of the same item
On the immediate left: purple swung Lined Lattice vase with
rectangular feet, with a line drawing of the feet below.
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Occasionally you will see a
short flared Lined Lattice vase perched upside down on top of the Princess lamp base. I’m convinced that this was
not a marriage created at the factory. Original ads for this lamp show a cloth shade. An opaque glass shape, closed
at the top, seems to defeat the purpose of a lamp. The few found in peach opalescent aren’t quite as opaque, but
they are closed at the top. The vase has to be deliberately damaged to accommodate the bulb frame, and each vase
seems to have been damaged differently. Besides, Dugan-Diamond made the vase, the Princess Lamp was made by US
Glass.
As with all Carnival patterns, anomalies in colour or shape will suddenly appear. A Lined lattice vase with a pale
smoked amber base glass was shown recently; a blue one is rumoured; top edges have been subjected to the
glassmaker’s whimsy. One never knows what delightful treasure awaits around the next corner.
Copyright
© G&S Thistlewood and Joan Doty and T
Fuhrman 2009
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