Four Antique Needle Etch Glass Wine Stems Bryce? Sunflowers

For one money is this set of four needle etched wine stems. They are a bit over 4.5 inches tall and probably date to the 1920s when the needle etch technique was most widely used. The pattern features abstract sunflowers and ribbons. Needle etched glass was an acid etching technique applied to thin glass. In the needle etching process, a glass blank was coated with wax. A skilled setter used a complex machine to carve a repeating pattern in the glass, then the piece was placed in an acid dip to create the pattern.

Both Bryce and Fostoria were important makers of this glass, but there were many others, and we were not able to identify this pattern. They have no cracks, chips or repairs, but do have slight wear to the base.