Topic: uranium yellow opal 50's bowl??

[bat20]

Hi all,last one of the bank holiday weekend and curiosity getting the better of me i think,it has wear to the outside of the base and is 11" wide with a very long low tone ring,i should also mention it has a ground flat rim with enamelled blue swallows and stars,lastly it glows green with the uv torch,i'm guessing Bohemian,any thoughts many thanks.

[Lustrousstone]

The swallow and the stars are transfers. The same stars are found on Chance items, so I would say your date is about right. It's not Bohemian, as that only takes us to 1918.

This pale yellow uncased uranium is not that common. I have four identified US pressed pieces ( 2 x Heisey in Ivorina verde c 1900, a Jefferson piece c 1905 and a Fenton piece c 1975, Fenton used it a lot but mostly frosted) and some Leerdam

And then I have these two mould-blown pieces, which I reckon are contemporaneous with yours and possibly the same manufacturer but I have no idea who made then
http://lustrousstone.co.uk/cpg/displayimage.php?pid=1427
http://lustrousstone.co.uk/cpg/displayimage.php?pid=2083

[bat20]

Very interesting Christine,would the transfers have just been used in this country?When i picked it up i could see a faint hint of what i thought was a stamp,but on closer inspection when i got home it may just be just some foreign matter looking like tea dust faintly forming a triangle on the base.Lets hope a labelled example turns up soon.

[Lustrousstone]

There weren't that many transfer makers, so they could have been used anywhere

Lets hope a labelled example turns up soon.

Dream on!

[bat20]

Is that a glass top to the rose bowl Christine?

[Lustrousstone]

No, most unusually it's Bakelite. I'll edit the caption to say so.

[bat20]

I thought it might be,these pieces are very much of there time aren't they,i wonder if mine had a lid of some sort,i think it would balance the proportions up a bit.

[flying free]

I agree - as soon as I saw it I thought it was missing it's lid.
No idea whether the lid would have been glass or metal though.
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[Lustrousstone]

No, it's too big to be lidded. It's fruit bowl size

[flying free]

oh yes, you're right ... odd shape though.  Would definitely look better with a lid 
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