Esberard Rio Paneled Pineapple Marigold Large Footed Bowl

Fábio Silveira Lucas is a friend that lives in a city named Bagé, in the state Rio Grande do Sul, in the southeast region of Brazil. Bagé is near Uruguay, and if we take a look in a map, Uruguay has a frontier with Brazil and Argentina. Because of this we can find carnival glass that came from Argentina to Uruguay and from Uruguay to Brazil.

My friend Álvaro has an antique store in Bagé where we can find carnival glass that we do not find in other Brazilian regions like Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo or Minas Gerais. Fábio always has some interesting Carnival pieces, and when I can, I always buy them from him. In the first week of April, Fábio send me two photos of a beautiful bowl. He only told me that it was a big beautiful bowl and nothing else.

The bowl had a curious pattern that I had never seen before, and I thought it could be Argentinian, European, or made by Imperial Glass because of the kind of heavy glass we could see in the photo.

Because I did not find any information about it, I published a photo in Carnival Glass Network, a group page on Facebook, asking for help. It was a surprise when Glen Thistlewood wrote saying I had found something new. Since there was no more information about the bowl, but now we could think it was some new discovery, I went and bought it from my friend Fábio.

The bowl was delivered in one week (I live in Curitiba, Paraná, 1100 km far from Bagé) and I was very surprised when I opened the package, took the bowl in my hands and saw that it was made by Esberard Rio! There is the mark of Esberard in the glass, and Fábio didn't tell me this!!!!!

So it was a new pattern, one I never saw before, in carnival or in non-carnival glass, and now it was necessary to name it. We have a great and wonderful group of carnival glass collectors on Carnival Glass Network where Glen and Stephen Thistlewood are the administrators of it. I asked of Glen if I could share with the group members the responsibility of giving a name to the pattern and those of you who know Glen and Stephen must know that the answer was "Yes, of course!".

My dear friend Christina Katsikas was the first to suggest a name, Diamond Stars. It was a very good name, but I do not know what happened that Christina changed the name for a better name; Paneled Pineapple! Perfect! And we need to know that pineapple (abacaxi, in portuguese) is a tropical fruit. It is very common in Brazil! A very perfect name from Christina Katsikas!

As I said before, this bowl is the only piece that I know in the Paneled Pineapple pattern, and it is a big piece (24.5 cm in diameter, 12.5 cm in height) and very heavy(from 1.5 kg to 2.0 kg).

I am very happy with this find, and more happy to have Christina Katsikas's help to give a name for it!

The Claudio Deveikis Collection, SA