Topic: Brides bowl I inherited from English relatives

[deco.queen]

The story is that this bowl came over from Lancashire, England with my ancestors in a silver frame.  It then went back to England and came back to American again without the frame.  .   It was my grandmothers and my mother got it and now me.  It is the main reason I started to collect glass.  I loved looking at this bowl as a child.  I don't know if the maker can be identified but I have to give it a try.  It is 10 1/2 inches across, cased glass with an amber clear edge.  The painted flowers are lovely.  Thanks for looking!  By the way the family name is Bennison.

[Lustrousstone]

Late 19th century, possibly uranium glass (the white body, try it with a UV light). Possibly English but more likely Bohemian because of the enamelling and even more likely if not uranium. I'll look for a shape match tonight but that may be as good as it gets. It may well have had a frame but they were often wholesaler or retailer additions. It's certainly very large  nice one. Plenty of Bennisons round here (Warrington, ex Lancashire now Cheshire)

[deco.queen]

Nothing on this bowl glows with a black light. 

[Galle]

So, no one thinks Webb on this one?

[Lustrousstone]

Could be - these sorts of things are very hard to pin down. Can't find the shape in any of my Bohemian references, although there were cased bowls with crimped edges, applied edging and interior enamel from Kralik

[Galle]

Kralik never did anything like this... the crested rim isn't typical of Bohemian, either.