A tiny antique cottage house touched with red, green, and gold, its glass walls paper-thin and silvered with mercury from the inside.
Materials: Mercury glass
Dimensions: Approx. 2.5" tall, 1.75" square
Origin: Lauscha, Germany
Era: Antique, 1880s–early 1900s
Condition: Excellent for its age — only very minor color loss. Please review photos closely before purchasing, as all sales are final.
This antique house ornament still carries its pontil mark on the base, a clear sign of authentic hand-blown age.
An exceptional find for a serious ornament collector, and a quiet, glinting piece of glassmaking history for the tree.
Lauscha, Germany is considered the birthplace of glass Christmas ornaments, dating back to Protestant glassblowers who settled there in the 1590s. By the 1880s, F.W. Woolworth was importing Lauscha glass to the U.S., and at one point nearly all American tree glass traced back to this single town.
Pairs beautifully with the other Lauscha cottages in our shop.
