{"product_id":"estatefreshaustincom-190","title":"c1890 Mt Washington decorated burmese vase","description":"c1890 Mt Washington decorated burmese vase. 4.75\" tall x 5\" wide with no damage.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMT. WASHINGTON AND PAIRPOINT GLASS\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMt. Washington and its successor, the Pairpoint Corporation, was one of  America’s longest-running luxury glass companies (1837-1957), one that rivaled\nits better known contemporaries, Tiffany and Steuben. It constantly reinvented\nand re-invigorated its business through creativity in texture, decoration,\npattern, and color - developing a variety of styles and decorating techniques\nwhich were so technically complex that few are even practiced today.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Mt. Washington Glass Company was founded in South Boston in 1837, and moved\nto New Bedford, Massachusetts, in 1870. In 1880, Thomas J. Pairpoint, an English\nsilversmith, was hired to run the Pairpoint Manufacturing Company, another\ncompany in New Bedford which Mt. Washington’s owners established to produce\nornate silver-plated mounts for Mt. Washington glass.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1894, the Pairpoint Manufacturing Company absorbed Mt. Washington, and the\ncompany was renamed the Pairpoint Corporation in 1900, which remained the\ncompany’s name until it went out of business in 1938. It was revived briefly as\nthe Gundersen-Pairpoint Glass Company but closed permanently in 1957. The\ncompany’s most successful years were from 1880 (in the height of the opulent\nGilded Age) to 1930 (the end of the exuberant Roaring Twenties).\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMT. WASHINGTON ART GLASS AND CUT GLASS\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEnglishman Frederick Shirley was hired in 1872 to run Mt. Washington’s\nchandelier department, and two years later was put in charge of the entire\ncompany. Shirley was entrepreneurial and litigious, quick to adopt new designs\nand quick to complain if he thought any other firm was copying his wares. By the\ntime he resigned in 1891, he had amassed a total of 27 patents and five design\npatents for various types of glass, most of which were quite successful.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1885, Shirley introduced Burmese glass, a translucent glass that shaded from\nyellow to pink, which was highly decorated in the elegant and sophisticated\nstyle characteristic of the day. It became an immediate success on the Art Glass\nmarket. Shirley was a good businessman and took advantage of the dawning age of\nadvertising to promote Burmese glass extensively.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMt. Washington’s large decorating shop specialized in enameling. The decorators\nwho worked on Burmese glass also applied their skills to a variety of other\ndecorated glasses with exotic names like Royal Flemish, Crown Milano, Colonial,\nand Pearl Satin Ware. By 1890, the company was advertising itself as\n“Headquarters in America for Art Glass Wares.”\nisshelf","brand":"sale - www.estatefreshaustin.com Estate Fresh Austin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46374421692632,"sku":"15098391956_26EF","price":600.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0677\/6284\/7960\/files\/c1890-mt-washington-decorated-burmese-vaseestate-fresh-austin-645724.png?v=1757925646","url":"https:\/\/estatefreshaustin.com\/it\/products\/estatefreshaustincom-190","provider":"Estate Fresh Austin","version":"1.0","type":"link"}