A black glass-and-chrome cocktail shaker by the Cambridge Glass Company of Cambridge, Ohio, circa 1930, the body in Cambridge's Ebony glass with a stepped chrome cap, an American Art Deco design of the Prohibition years.
The body is of square section, tapering upward from a broad base in four gently convex panels of black glass, the faces meeting at softly defined vertical ribs, rising to a narrow shoulder that receives the cap with a precise fit. The cap is a tiered construction of three progressively narrowing cylindrical sections, finished with a flat-topped knurled finial, the dark spreading base and bright ascending metal recalling the stepped profile of the Art Deco skyscraper. Cambridge, founded in 1901, was among the more technically accomplished American glass manufacturers of the period, and the Ebony line, introduced in the early 1920s, was one of its most successful colored glass productions.
Condition is excellent throughout: the glass body is free of chips or cracks, the cap is bright and even, and the strainer and pour mechanism are fully intact. It stands 12 inches high and 3 inches wide.
A black glass-and-chrome cocktail shaker by the Cambridge Glass Company of Cambridge, Ohio, circa 1930, the body in Cambridge's Ebony glass with a stepped chrome cap, an American Art Deco design of the Prohibition years.
The body is of square section, tapering upward from a broad base in four gently convex panels of black glass, the faces meeting at softly defined vertical ribs, rising to a narrow shoulder that receives the cap with a precise fit. The cap is a tiered construction of three progressively narrowing cylindrical sections, finished with a flat-topped knurled finial, the dark spreading base and bright ascending metal recalling the stepped profile of the Art Deco skyscraper. Cambridge, founded in 1901, was among the more technically accomplished American glass manufacturers of the period, and the Ebony line, introduced in the early 1920s, was one of its most successful colored glass productions.
Condition is excellent throughout: the glass body is free of chips or cracks, the cap is bright and even, and the strainer and pour mechanism are fully intact. It stands 12 inches high and 3 inches wide.
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