Jeannette Glass Lombardi No. 3435 Amberina Four-Toed Oval Footed Bowl

The Jeannette Glass Lombardi bowl is a pressed glass oval fruit bowl on four scroll toes, with a rim cut into tall pointed scallops that stand up like a crown. This copy is in amberina, shading from yellow amber at the rim to deep ruby red at the base and feet. Nothing is molded or stamped on the glass, so the name comes from the box: unused copies still in their carton read "ANTIQUE CLASSICS II" on the lid, "#3435 LOMBARDI BOWL" on the side, and "The Jeannette Glass Company, Jeannette, Pa." with the company's J logo on the bottom. Every raised detail on this copy matches those boxed bowls, from the chrysanthemum-like flower and fern sprays to the swirled rosettes above each foot.

Jeannette Glass grew out of a bottle works in Jeannette, Pennsylvania, and took the name Jeannette Glass Company in 1898. It moved into pressed tableware in the 1920s and became one of the big names in Depression glass, with patterns such as Iris and Herringbone and Poinsettia. In 1961 it bought the old McKee glass plant in the same town, in 1970 it renamed itself Jeannette Corporation, and in 1983 it shut down. That closing date is a hard limit on the age of any Jeannette Lombardi bowl.

Lombardi came well after the Depression years. Collectors and sellers tie the pattern to Jeannette's 1950s milk glass, and its best-known color is Shell Pink, a pale pink milk glass sellers date to the late 1950s. The same mold turns up in plain milk glass, aqua, iridescent marigold carnival, clear with gold trim, brown and a blue-green ombre that a dealer also lists as No. 3435. The amberina box gives a firmer clue to its date than any seller's guess. Its address includes the ZIP code 15644, and five-digit ZIP codes started in 1963, while the box still uses the Jeannette Glass Company name, which the firm dropped in 1970. Several sellers date the amberina bowl to 1971 and others to the 1960s, but no catalog page was found to settle the year.

True amberina is a heat-struck art glass of the 1880s, patented by Joseph Locke of the New England Glass Company in 1883, made of amber glass with gold in the batch that turns red where the glassworker reheats it, so the color runs through the glass. Jeannette's version is a factory-applied surface color on pressed glass, which nearly every seller calls flashed. One seller of an amberina Lombardi mentions light scratches "where the red finish has worn off," and wear like that shows the red sits on the surface. On this bowl the color is original to the factory, but it's still a coating, so it should be washed by hand with no abrasive pads.

The Lombardi amberina bowl is common, and a search for "lombardi amberina" on eBay showed 79 live listings on October 29, 2026, most of them this bowl, while Poshmark had several more. Copies still in the Antique Classics II box turn up now and then and ask about the same as loose ones.