Pattern Name:OSTRICH LOOKING AT THE MOON

Pattern Motif:Animals

Glass Type:Non-Flint

Era:1880s

Description:50 Favorites - 47 One of the most fanciful patterns to ornament and pressed-glass goblet is OSTRICH LOOKING AT THE MOON. The image of the ostrich, who gazes contemplatively through his spectacles are attached to a ribbon or cord that hangs around its neck. This element of the design was misinterpreted by Minnie Watson Kamm, who wrote that the birds stands "with a large angleworm in its long beak.” Kamm also mistook the bird for a stork and her pattern designation, “Moon and Stork,” occasionally has been propagated by other authors. Doris and Peter Unitt described this non-lead glass pattern of the 1880s as “positively lovely, a fairy tale design,” while Alice Hulett Metz praised the exceptional quality of the moldwork and predicted a significant escalation in the value of the goblet. No one has ventured to attribute the pattern to any specific factory. (50 Favorites catalogue) Also called MOON AND STORK U1, p.191; M1, p. 104