Description

These are vintage Indiana Glass / Colony avocado-green footed sherbet or dessert cups are short, sturdy mid-century pieces meant for ice cream, fruit, pudding, or a small coupe of champagne. Each one stands about 3¼ to 3½ inches tall with a rim around 3½ inches across, so they sit low and wide on the table rather than towering like stemmed champagne glasses.

The color is a warm translucent olive-avocado that deepens in the thicker parts of the glass and glows when light hits it. A smooth, slightly thickened band encircles the rim; below that the bowl is cut into large diamond-shaped panels that catch reflections and give the cup a faceted, almost architectural look. Looking down into the bowl or turning it over, those panels meet in a small hexagon at the center, the telltale pressed-mold detail. A short stem flares into a round foot with a simple molded ring, all in the same green glass, so the piece reads as one solid color from rim to base.

Indiana Glass (often marketed as Colony) made this kind of avocado tableware in the 1960s and 1970s. The line is unmarked, as most of their production was. The shape and color sit comfortably with other mid-century avocado glass such as Whitehall cubist pieces, King’s Crown, Park Lane, and they work equally well as everyday dessert dishes or as a set of vintage barware. The four cups have even color, crisp paneling, and the characteristic hexagon in the foot, the details collectors look for in this popular Indiana pattern.