Pioneer - Heavy Glass from the 1950s - Embossed Fruit

This heavy glass plate is Pioneer by Federal Glass. It's a little later than most of our glass, dating to the 1940s, and it has the heavy, solid appeal that went well with the colonial and early American styles.

Pioneer has a molded in design of fruit in the center and you may find it plain, without the fruit, as well as with other center designs. We usually see it in clear but it got the usual treatments of the era, including flashing and a goofus-like gilding.

Other companies made similar patterns and we have some small bowls with fully ground bases and sand-blasted intaglio fruit bottoms that are nice.

We just listed this in our TIAS store and on eBay if you would like to take a look.