This is a wonderful early cranberry glass jug with applied clear glass handle understood to be dated from c1900.  It stands approximately 18cm high, is in good antique condition and has a ground off pontil mark to the base.
"Cranberry glass or 'Gold Ruby' glass is a red glass made by adding gold salts or colloidal gold to molten glass. Tin, in the form of stannous chloride, is sometimes added in tiny amounts as a reducing agent. The glass is used primarily in expensive decorations."
This item can be collected from My Mother's at Old Petrie Town sunday morning market or delivered in Brisbane area by arrangement.
Enquiries from outside Australia are welcome but please contact us before purchase to confirm postage costs.