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Depression Glass from Imperial – Diamond Quilted
Don’t Adjust Your Screen – Diamond Quilted Depression Glass for Pink Saturday
Imperial Glass made Diamond Quilted from the late 1920s into the early 1930s mostly in pink and green, plus pieces in amber, blue, black, ruby and crystal. It’s true depression glass, even though we know Imperial for their quality crystal patterns such as Candlewick. Notice the lean on the sherbet stem!
You can get service for lunch in most of the colors and several tumblers and goblets in pink or green. Going by the piece assortment, Imperial must have marketed Diamond Quilted mostly as a decorative pattern with several beautiful accessory pieces like a candy jar, vase, compotes and, mayo set, punch bowl, console bowl and candle holders.
Diamond Quilted includes only 3 plates, the 6 inch sherbet liner (or bread and butter size), 7 inch salad or 8 inch luncheon plate. It isn’t easy to see in the plate photos, but these all have a rounded foot. It is easier to see in the bowls as shown below.
There are three bowls meant for place setting use, a 2-handled cream soup, a 5 inch cereal and an interesting finger bowl.
The finger bowl is about the same width as the cream soup, 4 3/4 inches across without the handles, but it’s deeper and has no handles. Finger bowls were ritzy accessories meant for someone to discretely wash their finger tips after a course. (I always wondered just what people eat with their fingers at dinners that are fancy enough to warrant finger bowls.) In fact finger bowls make a lot of sense and today we sometimes see restaurants serving warm, wet towels after messy courses or barbeque. I couldn’t find photos of the cereal or finger bowls.
Cups are interesting with a curvy shape, round handle, round foot, different looking. (Twisted Optic cups are similar.)
Some depression glass patterns include tumblers or goblets and Diamond Quilted has several of each. The goblets are especially intriguing; they include a 1 ounce cordial, a 2 and 3 ounce wine and an unusual large champagne goblet that is 6 inches tall and holds 9 ounces. I couldn’t find any pictures of this champagne online and think it must have been a flute style goblet with plenty of head space.
There are even more tumblers in this pattern, some flat, some footed, holding from 6 to 12 ounces. I found no photos of any of the tumblers or goblets unfortunately.
There are two small serving bowls, about 7 inches across and shallow, one is crimped and one is straight. There is also a 1-handled low jelly and a pretty console bowl with rolled rim.
Naturally there are Diamond Quilted candle holders to use with the console bowl.
There is a second style of candle holder, a little more traditional shape top and a domed foot.
There are many more decorative accessory pieces you can hunt for in Diamond Quilted. Look for a footed cake stand, candy jar and lid, two sizes of comports, one with feet and a cover, pitcher, ice bucket, mayonnaise set with ladle, underplate and bowl, punch bowl, center handled server, vase.
As you can see by the dearth of pictures for most of the accessories or drinkware, it’s not easy to find some Diamond Quilted pieces even online. I think part of the problem is that it’s not that well known of a pattern and another is that the diamond motifs are not always distinct and don’t photograph well. It is a pretty pattern in several gorgeous colors and if you got a piece like the candy or console bowl it would be beautiful and fun, a treasure.