Grape Delight

By Barb Chamberlain

Grape Delight, a product of the Dugan/Diamond Glass Company, was produced in limited shapes and colors. The pattern was produced in both the Dugan and the Diamond periods of the company. The most often seen piece in this pattern is the rosebowl shape. This rosebowl can have the top edge shaped differently by either an eighteen scalloped top or a crimped ruffle top. It is found more often in the crimped ruffle top design. Found quite easily in white, but it also can be found in marigold and amethyst fairly frequently, as well. Blue is harder to find, as are lavender and horehound. Dugan/Diamond’s horehound is a bit darker amber color.

The other shape that is known in this pattern, and made from the same mold as the rosebowl, is the nut bowl with the edges scalloped and flared slightly outward. Surprising, the nut bowl is rarely found in white. Also rarely found colors are lavender and horehound. More easily found are marigold, amethyst, and blue. Blue is generally not found often in Dugan/ Diamond glass but is the exception here.

Reproductions were made by both the L.G. Wright and Mosser companies in cobalt (more transparent with lighter iridescence than the old), purple, ice green, and ice blue. Many of the reproductions were marked with the N in a circle mark, but some also appear with no marking whatsoever.

This beautiful Grape Delight rosebowl is now known in ice green.

I would like to present an ice green rosebowl that appears to be old. There is no marking either on the interior or exterior. I have seen the newer nut bowl (only in photos) in this pattern, and the “ice green” coloring appears to be a more yellowish, darker ice green coloring with a glossy surface. Our rosebowl has a matte or satin finish, as the old pieces of ice green possess. I haven’t seen a rosebowl shape in the new version. We have had several very knowledgeable people tell us that they too believe this to be an old piece of Dugan/Diamond glass.

It’s very possible that this rosebowl could have been made in ice green since there are at least three other Dugan patterns that have been found in ice green—the Pony bowl, the Coin Spot compote, and the Windflower nappy. So, with the backing of others, I believe this ice green rosebowl to be a product of the classic carnival glass era.

Above you see the ice green rosebowl, middle, with the white rosebowl, both with the crimped top edge, and the purple one with the scalloped top.

If you have further information, please email me at: [email protected] or write to me at: 124 E. Honey Creek Dr., Manchester, IA 52057. Any additional information will be reported in a future issue of The Carnival Pump.

This article first appeared in the ICGA Pump in the June 2015 issue and is reprinted with permission.