Petroleum lamp, oil in blue enamelled glass, Mary Grégory, decoration of a draped woman. XIXth period.
Normal wear, see photos.
is an American artist specializing in enameled glass. From 1880 to 1890, she worked with her sister at the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company. She has the particularity of having represented in her works only children in the Victorian style (dressed in sailor costumes or crinolines) in the middle of natural settings, quite similar to the illustrations of Kate Greenawayet, and more rarely babies. His enamelled subjects, of a very typical milky white and very recognizable, were made by application on glasses, pitchers, decanters, sugar bowls, vases, salt flasks in amethyst, light green, dark green, amber, light blue, turquoise. , cobalt blue or vermeil. Its European productions were mainly made in the glass towns of Bohemia, mainly by the Hahn glassworks in Gablonz, and to a lesser extent by the Moser glassworks in Karlsbad and extended until the 1950s.