Welcome to this week’s Fancy Fun Friday! Today we’re hauling out the big guns, the big fancy ones that is. Let’s welcome our Fostoria Chintz console bowl with wing handles. It’s a beauty!
When I first started in glass the pieces that really called to me were the console bowls. For some reason these got in my heart and never left. I love the shapes, the designs, the way you can use them for elegant decoration, the pure specialness of each one. When you hold a console bowl you just know the first person who owned it thought it was special, a fancy piece, something to treasure.
During the depression, even into the 1970s many people did not own things of beauty just because they were beautiful. They bought for utility and looks were secondary. A bowl like this that is beautiful would have been a special treat, an indulgence to take care of, to treat as special, reserved for Sunday or fancy meals.
To me, the essence of fancy is special. Fancy isn’t frills. Fancy is what you treasure.