Late Victorian Cranberry and Uranium Glass Fluted Bowl

This is a stunning example of a high quality decorative glass bowl, probably British in origin and dating to between 1870 and 1880.

The bowl has a short cylindrical lower portion that widens out to form a flared undulating rim. The lower half is decorated on the exterior with a fine cylindrical trail pattern in a pale pink. This extends on to the base where there is a central polished pontil. There is an applied yellow glass fringe with crimped lobes that is attached at the base of the fluted portion. Above this, the rim flares out and is decorated with a cranberry glass trail. The rim is decorated with the same applied yellow glass lobes that have been crimped.

The yellow glass contains uranium, which makes it fluoresce under ultraviolet light.

It has a height of approximately 6.3cm, with a maximum diameter across the rim of about 13.6cm and across the base of about 7.5cm.

It is in good condition, with only a couple of very minor nicks out of the trail around the base. It is otherwise in very good condition, with no damage to the uranium glass.