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bjbj All of the pieces in this case are what we called off-hand work, which means they
were made on the blowers own time after they had finished their quota of pieces for the
day, and that s why no two are alike. They can be really well made when the blower was
an expert; sometimes they re kind of clumsy if the blower was a beginner. Pieces like
this were usually taken home as a gift for someone in the worker s family. The decoration
you see there, which collector s call lily-pad, is an added gather of glass, which is tooled
around the object, and that s done before the shape of the object is finished. There
are several different kinds of lily-pad, as you can see on the lower shelf. Sometimes
the tendrils of lily-pad come up vertically; sometimes, as in that blue pitcher at the
left, they are swirled around. The amber pitcher on the left is also swirled, and the piece
right in the center of the upper shelf has cross lily-pads, which is the rarest kind
of decoration, and was difficult to do. That particular piece came from one of the upstate
New York window glass factories. In fact, most of these pieces came from widow and bottle
glass factories, rather than table-ware factories, and that s why they are aquamarine and brown,
which were the colors that were used for making bottles, in the case of the browns and ambers,
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