Strawberry DiamondPattern and Motif

Greg Randall

Beginnings• Anglo-Irish/European Heritage

– Hoare– Singleton– Hawkes– Egginton– Anderson– Dorflinger– Carder

• Many of the owners, designers and cutters worked throughout the entire Brilliant Period

Patterns• Not PRIMARILY a means of artistic

expression• This is a business: Offer what Sells

– Fashion– Fad– Appeal to the wealthy– Stereotypes

Patterns

• No concern for consistency or for future ‘collectors’– Same name for different patterns– Changes to patterns over time or for

shape/size of blank– Lack of or inconsistent signatures

(used for authentication at the time)

What’s in a name?

• American Strawberry Diamond

• Cross-cut Diamond

• English Strawberry Diamond

• Double Cross-cut Diamond– Dorflinger #80– Pairpoint Madison

American Strawberry Diamond

American Strawberry Diamond• 1860s?-1870

– Frequently a motif, in bands/borders

– Seldom – ‘all-over cut’

• 1870s-1880s– Frequently –’all-over cut’

– Frequently cut on base of item

– Seldom ‘rayed-star’ base

– Also used as a Major Motif in a pattern

American Strawberry Diamond• 1890s-1900

– Still popular - frequently –’all-over cut’– Usually ‘rayed-star’ base– Frequent use as a Major Motif in a pattern

• 1900-– Still popular - frequently –’all-over cut’– Usually ‘rayed-star’ base– Less frequent use as a Major Motif in a pattern

American Strawberry Diamond

• Throughout – used as pressed glass pattern

English Strawberry Diamond

Dorflinger #80

Pairpoint Madison

Strawberry Diamond Pattern• Four miters create the diamond• Size of the ‘flat’ top related to angle

and depth of the miters• Cross-cuts perpendicular to the sides of

the diamond meet IN THE MIDDLE• “One of the hardest to cut”• “Can cut it in my sleep”

Not all S/D is created equalWhich is harder to do??

The smaller the ‘flat’, the more difficult

Exercise

Strawberry Diamond

Strawberry Diamond

Strawberry Diamond

Strawberry Diamond

Strawberry Diamond

Strawberry Diamond and Fan

Strawberry Diamond and Fan

Strawberry Diamond and Fan

Strawberry Diamond and Fan

Strawberry Diamond and Fan

Strawberry Diamond and Fan

Hawkes Cobweb

Hawkes Devonshire

Dorflinger Colonial

Dorflinger #28

Mt Washington Wheeler

Libbey Harvard

Hoare Oxford

Pairpoint Palace

Sinclaire