Cranberry Glass
Glassware having a deep red color and a golden sheen, especially popular in England and the United States in the late 19th century.
Although always popular, few glass manufacturers attempted this color, which involves an often temperamental combination of lead oxide and real gold. The current world market price of gold continues to be high making the color not only difficult to create, but expensive to produce.
Cranberry Glass was blown by mouth and shapped by hand at The Pilgrim Glass Corporation. The Pilgrim Glass Corporation was once the largest producer of cranberry glass in the world. Their cranberry glass is the critical achievement of the glassmakers art.
The Ohio Glass Museum Exhibit comes from the private collection of David H. Babcock.
