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Imperial’s Wassail Punch BowlThis is Imperial’s very elusive 1950/20 Wassail Punch Bowl, produced for only one year in 1950. So rarely found, in fact, it is not shown or even mentioned in the three volume Imperial Glass Encyclopedia (1999). It is illustrated in Garrison’s book, Milk Glass: Imperial Glass Corporation (2001) with 12 cups and listed as a “14 piece set.” The set actually consists of only 13 pieces, because the bowl and its supporting base are not two separate items. This elegant punch bowl stands 8 ¼” high and is 11 ¾” in diameter. Embossed around the bowl are nine different figures of robust naked men and children depicted in various postures picking grape clusters from the vines that circle the top rim of the bowl. They appear to be a mixture of human and mythological types. One looks like Bacchus riding on a donkey, a young lad is seen toppling into a wine vat, others are drinking from large ewers, and a Satyr, half man and half goat, is seated reaching up to pluck a cluster of grapes. The cups for this bowl, incidentally, are identical to those which were sold with Imperial’s 1950/128 Grape punch set.
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