Pattern Name:LION

Pattern Motif:Animals

Glass Type:Flint

Decoration:Frosted

Manufacturer:Gillinder & Company

Era:1870s

Description:50 Favorites - 24 Minnie Watson Kamm writes in her book, Two Hundred Pattern Glass Pitchers (1939), “Lion, next to WESTWARD HO, is probably the best known and most popular of the patterns of the Seventies and is much the more abundant. The quality of the glass is high, its clarity, brilliance, resonance and general workmanship unsurpassed for its period.” Ruth Webb Lee ranked the pattern number 5 in her Antiques article, “The Popular Ten in Pattern Glass” (August 1937), nothing that LION had been sought after by collectors for as long as she could remember anything about glass. A small book was published on the subject by Susan W. and John S. Shuman III (Lion Pattern Glass, 1977), while numerous articles have discussed the wide variety of tableware forms in which the LION pattern was made. (50 Favorites catalogue) U1, p.91; M1, p. 96