Some interesting information here from Dr Jarmila Brozova, on the development of uranium glass in Bohemia and the timing. (if you are interested, you are able to highlight and copy the text and paste it into google translate in order to read the information)
Pressglas-Korrespondenz Nr. 02/2000
https://www.pressglas-korrespondenz.de/aktuelles/pdf/brozova-uranglas.pdfSo I still have queries over this bowl:
1) Timing wise with the development of uranium glass in manufacture:
- could this bowl have been produced in 1837 for the banquet of Queen Victoria at the City of London?
- could this bowl have been produced in Britain in 1837?
- could this bowl have been made at Davenports which is how the V&A have it described? Has it been described as made by Davenports simply because contemporary reports show that Davenports supplied the glass and china?
2) There is the anomaly of whether a simple VR engraved on the bowl could be described as the 'Royal arms', which is what the papers described all the glassware as having.
3) Queen Victoria reigned from 1837 to 1901. Could it have been produced for any number of reasons/occasions during that period?
Perhaps the golden Jubilee in 1887 but would there not have been some record of this somewhere?
Or simply as a gift to her from the City of London at some point in her reign?
http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O2170/finger-bowl-davenport-co/