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Author Topic: Opalescent Sweet or Bon-Bon Bowl  (Read 839 times)

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Offline David E

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Opalescent Sweet or Bon-Bon Bowl
« on: August 07, 2017, 10:42:14 AM »
Can anyone help me with a country and/or maker identification for this pressed opalescent bowl. There's no spoon hole, so not a preserve bowl and more likely for sweets/bon-bon or trinket bowl.
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Re: Opalescent Sweet or Bon-Bon Bowl
« Reply #1 on: August 07, 2017, 12:56:16 PM »
is it a powder bowl and lid from a dressing table set?

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Re: Opalescent Sweet or Bon-Bon Bowl
« Reply #2 on: August 07, 2017, 01:25:21 PM »
It could be - I suggested "trinket bowl". The diameter is 11.5cm. Really a matter of interpretation, but I suppose the colour lends itself better to being part of a trinket set.
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Re: Opalescent Sweet or Bon-Bon Bowl
« Reply #3 on: August 07, 2017, 11:10:08 PM »
oops sorry,didn't read to the end of your post  :-*

I thought it might be easier to look for dressing table sets, but having done a search, none appear to be the same.

I wonder if all countries made blue opalescent pressed glass sets?

Is it likely to be Bohemian?  did they make opalescent pressed glass?  or is it more likely to be English or American?
There is an American site chat something ?? that might be able to help if it is 'Depression' (?) glass.  Christine will be able to help I'm sure.

Also have you looked at Pamela's lovely site to see if it might be on there?

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Re: Opalescent Sweet or Bon-Bon Bowl
« Reply #4 on: August 08, 2017, 01:19:49 PM »
Bohemian was my hunch and, yes, they did make opalescent glass. English I can only think of Jobling as makers, with American there's Macbeth-Evans as a maker, and I'm sure Fenton made opalescent as well.
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Re: Opalescent Sweet or Bon-Bon Bowl
« Reply #5 on: August 08, 2017, 07:38:45 PM »
Similar to Brockwitz' 'Pomadedose' BOSTON pattern however, the lid is completely different  ::)
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Re: Opalescent Sweet or Bon-Bon Bowl
« Reply #6 on: August 08, 2017, 09:50:34 PM »
Thanks Pamela. A very close match, but as you say the lid is completely different. I'm wondering if this pattern was copied by another manufacturer?
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