A 3 7/8 inch tall x 3 1/8 inch wide ornate beautiful DEEP SUN COLORED PURPLE glass SUGAR bowl.   This is an ORIGINAL  ANTIQUE blown glass bowl with a wheel cut FLOWER & VINE design covering the sides, and silver overlay around the top of the rim.  This piece is actually HEXAGON SHAPED it is six - sided.  Also it has a beautiful SUN BURST PATTERN molded on the base.  With few exceptions, sun color purple glass dates from before 1914, and this is an early cut-glass piece dating back to the latter 1800's, well over one  century old!  

• Condition:   This piece is in nice clean condition.  It has just some traces of age wear, NO cracks, chips, dings, damage, etc.
  

• Age:   An ORIGINAL ANTIQUE blown-glass (hand Blown-Into-Mold BIM) piece, ca. late 1800's.

• Shipping: FREE DOMESTIC shipping. We DO ship Internationally but we do NOT insure International orders UNLESS BUYER SPECIFICALLY REQUESTS THIS AND WE ARE ABLE to provide an insurance estimate. It is becoming increasingly difficult to insure international orders and the price can exceed the price of the item, which can negate the sale. If an international shipping charge is much more than the actual shipping cost, we will refund the excess so what YOU pay for shipping/insurance is very close to, if not exactly, the ACTUAL shipping costs! This is important for foreign buyers to know as most of our foreign shipping charges are estimates. We do not falsify information on the Customs Form, such as a price other than what the actual purchase price is, so please do not request us to do so. We ship several times a week and your prompt payment will hasten the turn-around time.

A very attractive antique amethyst glass sugar bowl with the beautiful cut-glass flower and vine pattern throughout.  And then there is the MAGNIFICENT PURPLE COLOR.   You hear about old glass turning purple?  Here is the best explanation.  This purple color is the result of having manganese in the glass.  Manganese is a mineral, a rock, that was mined, crushed, and pulverized into a powder, and back in the day, it was added to vats of molten liquid glass, and acted as a decolorizing agent to turn the natural aqua-tinted glass into a pure crystal clear colorless glass.   But when exposed to the ultraviolet rays of the sun or other sources of UV rays, it triggers a chemical reaction and the manganese oxidizes and turns a wonderful amethyst color.   This piece has been exposed to a high heat/light source to enrich the purple color that would naturally occur if exposed to sun light for a prolonged period of time.   It is not painted, stained, or altered, the color is not ON the glass, the color IS the glass.  The only thing that may be altered is the time it took to turn purple.   It doesn't really matter whether it was turned purple by the sun or UV rays in a controlled environment, they all turn the same purple color as it is all the same chemical reaction taking place.  The most important factor is the age of the glass as, with few exceptions, only clear glass from before 1914 has manganese in it and will turn sun-colored-amethyst.   So the blown glass item has to be old enough, blown with manganese in the glass, in order to turn purple.  Not only does this deep purple/amethyst color make this a great looking piece of antique  glass-ware, but it also authenticates it as being truly antique, check it out!

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