Snowflake (Pyrex pattern)

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The Corning Museum of Glass’s Pyrex pattern library says Snowflake and Pink Daisy were the first patterned opalware Corning made with its new screen-printing process, introduced in 1956 as “NEW Pyrex Decorator Casseroles”. Snowflake came in three colourings: white on turquoise, the longest-running, made until 1967; turquoise on white, until 1963; and white on charcoal, until 1960. Pyrex Love, a collectors’ reference, describes the snowflakes as alternating large and small in two lines along the side, and the charcoal version as the least common. In 1963 white-on-turquoise Snowflake and Butterprint were grouped as the Turquoise line. PYREX is a registered trademark of Corning Incorporated (see PYREX and pyrex).

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Snowflake or Snowflake Blue (Garland)?

Pyrex Love says the two are often lumped together, but they are different patterns. Snowflake Blue came out in 1972, one of the first Pyrex Compatibles with Spring Blossom Green and Butterfly Gold. The museum credits it to Robert Gibson and says it was made until 1975, printed in blue or white on alternating blue and white backgrounds. Its pattern of snowflakes, swags and dots looks like a garland, which is why collectors call it Garland.