Buffalo Hunt Punch Bowl - Summit Art Glass
This large punch bowl features American Indians on horseback hunting buffalo. The bowl is formed with a three part mould with a separate bottom plate in the mould. This creates four separate panels on the piece, the bottom and three panels around the bowl. The bowl is 12 inches across the top and is 6 3/4 inches tall. It is a deep cobalt blue glass and the interior is unpatterned and uniridized.

The bottom has four short feet and has a design of an American Indian with a bow and arrow riding a horse.

There are then three panels around the bowl. Each has a unique design but each features a sole American Indian hunting a sole buffalo. The background is filled with cactus and other vegatation. Buffalo are properly known as American Bison.

In 2009, James Measell, Historian for Fenton, sent in a note about this bowl. He noted that the pattern is pictured as part of the Cambridge "Everglades" line in Cambridge catalogs from the 1920s. This mold went from Cambridge to Imperial in the late 1950s and Summit got the mould during the Imperial liquidation in the mid-1980s. The current location of the mould is not known.
Panel 1 Panel 2 Panel 3
American Indian 1 American Indian 2 American Indian 3
Buffalo 1 Buffalo 2 Buffalo 3
Bottom Panel with three feet Ad from Glass Review magazine - May 1987