Pattern Name:SQUIRREL

Pattern Motif:Animals

Glass Type:Non-Flint

Era:1880s

Description:50 Favorites - 32. SQUIRREL has been compared to OWL AND POSSUM by such writers as Minnie Watson Kamm and Ruth Webb Lee, both of whom speculate that the two patterns were made at the same factory. Each pattern sports a naturalistic, trunk-like stem that supports a bowl ornamented with branches and small animals. Kamm notes that OWL AND POSSUM was attributed by Swan to the Portland Glass Company and that a SQUIRREL goblet was exhibited at the Harrison Gray Ottison House in Boston with the same attribution. Thelma and Laurence Ladd, the latest authors to address the subject of the Portland Glass Company, agree with these attributions. They further claim that the SQUIRREL is the name given to the pattern by the company and should be used in place of the popular collector's designation, "Squirrel-in-Bower." The simple SQUIRREL designation also was preferred by S.T. Millard, Alice Hulett Metz and Lee. Unfortunately, the Ladds do not substantiate their attribution with specific evidence, and since even the Portand attribtution of OWL AND POSSUM is not firmly established, the orgin of both patterns remains somewhat uncertain. (50 Favorites catalogue). U1, p.183; M1, p. 95