Purple Slag Glass Vase No. 2

Slag glass was a happy accident of early industrial glassmaking, molten color folded into clear glass before either had fully set. This pedestal vase, likely American and dating to the early 1900s, came out a deep blackberry swirled through with white, darkening toward the fluted body and lifting to pale lavender at the scalloped rim.

Style: American Victorian Revival
Materials & Techniques: Press-molded slag glass
Place of Origin: United States
Period: Likely mid-20th century