Topic: purple bronze carnival for id.

[Paul S.]

possibly too big for a trinket tray item, and perhaps just a general lidded bow of some kind, and am assuming it's a carnival piece of some sort in view of the petrol like iridescence.      The base glass is green.
Height about 5" (130 mm) with some wear so I don't think made recently.        The rims on both body and lid have been ground and beveled - and surprising the mount of black seeds/stones within the glass, as can be seen in the picture.

Not my area but just thought it attractive and curious as to origin and possible date.   thanks for looking.

[Lustrousstone]

Not carnival because it's not pressed or patterned. Could be Webb bronze?

[flying free]

 I'm going to suggest Bohemian as a possibility as well 
Is it possible to have a clear photograph of the cut and bevelled rim please?

As an aside is there evidence somewhere that English makers such as Thomas Webb did produce powder bowls with cut and bevelled rims?  I have a number of Stevens and Williams lidded boxes that are all firepolished. The cut and bevelled rims just seem odd to me as an English glassmaking 'thing'.
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[Lustrousstone]

These have cut and polished but not bevelled rims (and polished pontil marks) and I'm confident they are English
http://lustrousstone.co.uk/cpg/displayimage.php?pid=1227
http://lustrousstone.co.uk/cpg/displayimage.php?pid=1228

[Paul S.]

thanks for the correction re carnival

Some pix of the rims attached - not sure if these will help or not.                 Just noticed that the knob on the lid is in fact hollow.
I've not yet had a piece of T/Webb's bronze, so really have no idea in that direction.       Could be right with the Bohemian suggestion  -  the iridescent feature on this piece would fit in - time wise perhaps - with that type of decoration which I believe was common from that area of the Continent.