Topic: Cranberry and Uranium Glass Bowl

[NevB]

This is a 14cm. cranberry bowl with a hobnail? pattern applied uranium frill. The cranberry is much more of a magenta colour than shows in the photos and the uranium is virtually clear with just a yellow tinge in sunlight. My first thoughts were it's a Stourbridge piece possibly Thomas Webb or Stevens and Williams although the colour also hints at Murano. The wear on the base doesn't help with ageing it as the uneven swirl pattern stops there being any consistent wear right round the base. Any thoughts would be appreciated.

[keith]

Probably should have had a small metal stand, the frilly applied rim rests upon, could be Stourbridge

[NevB]

Thanks Keith, come to think of it a local antiques centre had two similar ones, not uranium, in a double frame and I've also now seen a few online.

[Lustrousstone]

Lovely preserve dish. I have lots of these but that is an unusual crimp to the rigaree. So I would say yes English, possibly Stourbridge but perhaps none of the usual suspects. Late Victorian/early Edwardian. My collection of preserves http://www.lustrousstone.co.uk/cpg/thumbnails.php?search=preserve&submit=search&album=search&title=on&newer_than=&caption=on&older_than=&keywords=on&type=AND

[NevB]

Thanks Christine, I've seen a couple of dishes on Ebay with feet with the same crimp as mine, one of them in America attributed to Stevens and Williams(?). I'll try and find a stand for mine.

[Lustrousstone]

Everything in America is attributed to Stevens and Williams; 95% of the time it's wrong.

[NevB]

That's what I thought.