{"product_id":"teal-pressed-glass-souvenir-tankard-gilt-cathedral-rock-cartouche-sedona-arizona-made-in-u-s-a-c-1960-1990","title":"Teal Pressed Glass Souvenir Tankard, Gilt Cathedral Rock Cartouche, Sedona, Arizona, Made in U.S.A., c. 1960–1990","description":"\u003ch3\u003eThe Piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eA small tankard in deep teal-blue pressed glass, heavy for its size and built like a miniature beer mug.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eThe body is \u003cstrong\u003epanelled\u003c\/strong\u003e — broad flat facets running up the sides, each finishing in a rounded arch below a flared, slightly waved rim. Below, the glass steps out onto a wide skirted foot ringed with a fine band of beading. The handle is a thick squared loop with a generous finger opening.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eOn the front, a \u003cstrong\u003egilt cartouche\u003c\/strong\u003e: a shaped shield outlined in gold, enclosing a landscape of red-rock buttes above a creek with trees and brush along the bank, all drawn in gold line. Beneath it, in gold capitals, \u003cstrong\u003eSEDONA, ARIZONA\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eThe rim carries a dark metallic band, toned almost to black.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eTurn it over and the underside of the foot is embossed in raised letters around the ring: \u003cstrong\u003eMADE IN U.S.A.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003ch3\u003eHistory \u0026amp; Provenance\u003c\/h3\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eThe scene in the gold is the reason this was bought in the first place. Sedona sits in the red-rock country of the Verde Valley in central Arizona, where Oak Creek has cut down through layered sandstone to leave the formations that made the place famous — the buttes and spires in the cartouche, drawn from the classic view.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eThe object belongs to a genuinely American tradition: the \u003cstrong\u003esouvenir tankard\u003c\/strong\u003e, sold at roadside trading posts, lodge gift shops and highway curio stores through the middle of the twentieth century, when the family car and the two-week vacation turned the Southwest into a destination. You drove, you stopped, you brought back a mug. Thousands of towns had one; the gold was applied over the fired glass by decorating shops that could change the scene and the place name from job to job.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eA few things are worth stating precisely.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIt is American-made and says so\u003c\/strong\u003e, embossed into the foot — not a printed sticker or a paper label but raised letters formed in the mould itself, which is the one mark on the piece that cannot have been added later.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThere is no maker's name.\u003c\/strong\u003e Several large American glasshouses pressed tankards in this pattern for the souvenir trade, and this one carries no company mark, so it is offered \u003cstrong\u003eunattributed\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAnd the gold is worn.\u003c\/strong\u003e The cartouche and the lettering are unfired or lightly fired surface gilding, which is how souvenir decoration was done, and it rubs. On this mug the outline and the place name survive clearly but a good deal of the interior detail has gone; the rim band has darkened and worn to a grey-black. Both are stated plainly below rather than photographed around.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eDated on the pressed form, the applied decoration and the embossed country marking: \u003cstrong\u003ec. 1960–1990\u003c\/strong\u003e. Offered as a vintage souvenir piece rather than as an antique.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003ch3\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/h3\u003e\n  \u003ctable border=\"1\" cellpadding=\"8\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"width:100%; border-collapse:collapse;\"\u003e\n    \u003cthead\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth align=\"left\" style=\"text-align:left; vertical-align:top;\"\u003eField\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003cth align=\"left\" style=\"text-align:left; vertical-align:top;\"\u003eDetail\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/thead\u003e\n    \u003ctbody\u003e\n      \u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"vertical-align:top;\"\u003eObject\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"vertical-align:top;\"\u003eSmall souvenir tankard or mug\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n      \u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"vertical-align:top;\"\u003eOrigin\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"vertical-align:top;\"\u003eAmerican. \u003cstrong\u003eMADE IN U.S.A.\u003c\/strong\u003e embossed into the underside of the foot. Unattributed — no maker's name is present.\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n      \u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"vertical-align:top;\"\u003eForm\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"vertical-align:top;\"\u003ePanelled body with arched panel tops and a flared waved rim, on a wide skirted foot with a beaded ring; heavy squared loop handle\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n      \u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"vertical-align:top;\"\u003eMaterial\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"vertical-align:top;\"\u003eTeal-blue pressed glass with applied gilt decoration and a metallic rim band\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n      \u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"vertical-align:top;\"\u003eDecoration\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"vertical-align:top;\"\u003eGilt shield cartouche enclosing a red-rock landscape with creek and trees, lettered SEDONA, ARIZONA beneath\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n      \u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"vertical-align:top;\"\u003eMarks\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"vertical-align:top;\"\u003eMADE IN U.S.A. embossed to the foot. No maker's mark.\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n      \u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"vertical-align:top;\"\u003eEra\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"vertical-align:top;\"\u003ec. 1960–1990. A vintage souvenir piece, not an antique.\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n      \u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"vertical-align:top;\"\u003eCondition\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"vertical-align:top;\"\u003eGood, with honest wear to the decoration. \u003cstrong\u003eThe glass itself is excellent\u003c\/strong\u003e — no chips, cracks, flea bites or nicks anywhere on the rim, foot, panels or handle, the colour is deep and even with no cloudiness, and the mug stands flat and true. \u003cstrong\u003eThe gilding is worn.\u003c\/strong\u003e The cartouche outline and the SEDONA, ARIZONA lettering read clearly, but much of the gold detail inside the scene has rubbed away and the image is fragmentary. \u003cstrong\u003eThe metallic rim band has darkened and worn\u003c\/strong\u003e to a grey-black and is uneven around the circumference. Light interior film. No repairs. Condition Guaranteed.\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n      \u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"vertical-align:top;\"\u003eAvailability\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"vertical-align:top;\"\u003eOne of a Kind — 1 Available\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n    \u003c\/tbody\u003e\n  \u003c\/table\u003e\n  \u003ch3\u003eWhy It Belongs in Your Home\u003c\/h3\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eBuy this one for the glass. That teal is a genuinely good colour — deep, saturated, and unlike anything currently in production — and the panelled body throws it into bands of light and shadow that shift as the mug turns. On a windowsill with sun behind it, it reads like a piece of coloured light.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eThe size makes it useful. It takes espresso or a short coffee, a small pour of whiskey or amaro, a votive candle, toothpicks or matches on a bar, brushes on a desk, or a few short-stemmed flowers on a sill.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eIt also carries a place, which most decorative glass does not. For anyone who grew up on Southwest road trips, honeymooned in Sedona, or collects Route 66 and roadside Americana, a mug with the red rocks on it is a specific memory rather than a generic object.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eA note on care, and the decoration is the fragile part. \u003cstrong\u003eNever put this in a dishwasher.\u003c\/strong\u003e The gold and the rim band sit on the surface of the glass rather than being fired deep into it, and dishwasher heat and detergent will take off what is left of them in a cycle or two. The glass would survive; the Sedona would not.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eHand wash in warm water with a mild soap, using a soft cloth and keeping it off the gilded areas as much as you can, then dry immediately. \u003cstrong\u003eUse no abrasive pad, scouring cream or metal polish\u003c\/strong\u003e — polish will strip the darkened rim band rather than brighten it, and the toning is age rather than dirt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eAvoid sudden temperature changes: do not pour boiling liquid into it cold, and do not take it from hot to cold water. Pressed glass fails at thermal shock. It is not microwave or oven ware. Keep it out of prolonged direct sun, which will continue to fade the gold, and store it standing rather than stacked inside another vessel, where the rim takes the pressure.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Viridian Eclection","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48039648723049,"sku":"VE-0696","price":90.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/0093\/9369\/files\/0ED7CBC0-BFD7-4BD7-B3AB-3E77F324F552.jpg?v=1789113136","url":"https:\/\/viridianeclection.com\/products\/teal-pressed-glass-souvenir-tankard-gilt-cathedral-rock-cartouche-sedona-arizona-made-in-u-s-a-c-1960-1990","provider":"Viridian Eclection","version":"1.0","type":"link"}