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and a corrected link to the tea caddy I was referencing for shape:
https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/russian-art/silver-gilt-cloisonne-enamel-tea-caddy-88/91922

And bizarrely, now I copy and paste a pic of that tea caddy at Christie's and put it next to a pic of my 'vase', I feel my 'vase' might have had a lid like the tea caddy shown.  Hmmm.  The neck is indented on mine though and different to the silver version so perhaps that would indicate it was made as a vase in the shape of the Russian tea caddy?

Two more silver enamelled tea caddies, similar in shape but with a  flatter lid not domed:

a) https://www.bonhams.com/auction/24666/lot/103/a-silver-gilt-and-enamel-tea-caddy-antip-kuzmichev-moscow-before-1898-retailed-by-tiffany-and-co/
b)  https://www.1stdibs.com/jewelry/objets-dart-vertu/enamel-frames-objects/antip-kuzmichev-enamel-tea-caddy/id-j_68413/

Thanks Tim for your continued help and interest.

I think it could be this one to which you refer?:
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O4967/plate-thomas-hawkes/

This is such a lengthy thread with so much research yet no nearer establishing what exactly these 'topaz' finger bowls  (reported in the contemporary of the time report in The Mirror, which gave the list of items supplied for the banquet)  looked like. 

Nor from whence they originated.  Absolutely no evidence at all that they were made at Davenport.

I'm beginning to wonder if they really existed (newspaper report, word of mouth?? and printed verbatim??)... or ... long shot .... could they have been these Thomas Hawkes bowls perhaps and wrongly described in The Mirror report?

Thomas Hawkes of Dudley Flint Glassworks closed in 1843 during the depression - so it's most likely that bowl was made before 1843 and likely it could have been made for the Coronation banquet I think... if... it was made at Hawkes.  Again it seems from the V&A description that this is not verified.
Source: http://www.historywebsite.co.uk/articles/Dudley/glassw.htm


And if that is the case then who made these bowls (one each in the V&A and in The Corning):
here - stated by V&A as made at Davenport -
https://www.vam.ac.uk/blog/museum-life/seeing-more-glow-in-the-dark-glass

M, no mention of uranium glass here but
 in the book Victorian table glass and ornaments by Barbara Morris there is a photograph of an gold enamel plate which the caption says was probably made by Thomas Hawkes of Dudley
as part of a service used at the first reception for queen Victoria by the corporation of London after her coronation in 1837.
Not sure if you have seen this info before.
Tim

Fire polished, bit late answering, been obsessed with a new hobby !

See page 61 in the Moser book. Reminder to self - just wondering if it might have been by Moser?


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