Topic: Victorian bowl?

[Keith Mick]

Hi,
Found this optically moulded bowl with an applied green glass rim. Around the waist is a pinched glass rigory.
It's hand blown with a polished pontil on the base. Approx 10.5cm across the rim and 7cm high.
Think it may be a posey bowl as there's a slight internal lip, could have seated a mesh frog, but equally may have had a glass lid originally or nothing at all!!!
Any help with ID, date etc appreciated,
Cheers
Keith M

[Lustrousstone]

Looks late Victorian English and probably a master salt at that size.

[ian the sculptor]

Would it have sat in something? A silver/plated stand perhaps? It just looks a bit odd without a proper base of its own.

Ian

[Keith Mick]

Hi,
Did wonder whether it started life on a metal stand but there's no sign of wear under the applied band but there is under the base.
Thanks
Keith M

[Lustrousstone]

They often had stands but the stands are not that common in the UK. Maybe they got sent to aid the war effort or UK buyers couldn't afford stands and the glass, or just didn't want a stand. US collectors think salts, preserves and what they call "Brides" bowls (they aren't really) are incomplete without stands. I have 16 preserve dishes with these supporting rigaree rims without stands and just 5 with stands (and that includes one with a stand but without the rigaree). I have two salts with stands and three without that should probably have stands