Topic: Vaseline Glass Bowls - Viking?

[horochar]

I cannot find these pieces anywhere on the net.  The closest I came was a lotus shaped small bowl by Viking, but it doesn't seem to be the same.  Any help would be appreciated.

Charles

[Ohio]

I think its a good chance its either Viking or the later Dalzell-Viking as they made probably 15 different designs of this type of petal utilitarian bowls in the late 70s up until 1998. I used to go the the plant showroom twice a year for around a decade & these designs were popular for everyday use & at the plant they were very inexpensive. Alot of this design type were made for Lenox by the plant & they sold all the contract overruns.

[horochar]

Thanks as always. I thought radiation laden Vaseline glass was dropped by US manufacturers (at least) much earlier, in the 1960s or early part of 1970s.

[Ohio]

You have to realize that for all intent & purposes probably 90+% of the large (note I say large) scale glass manufacturers in the U.S. were out of business by 1980, however Uranium Dioxide was still in use by surviving small operations all the way up to...well today. Fenton (although they were a decent size operation) , Mosser, Summit, Boyd, Degenhart, Guernsey, Gibson, Loranger to name a few & I believe Dalzell still used it from time to time up until closing. Not certain about L.E. Smith, Indiana & Lancaster that were still in operation until the early to mid 2000s before closing.