Late Victorian Cranberry Threaded and Uranium Glass Fluted Bowl c.1880

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 pale pink glass. This extends onto 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 13.7cm and across the base of about 7.5cm.

It has an unwrapped weight of 260g.

It is in good condition, with only a couple of very minor nicks out of the trail around the base and one small graze to the edge of one of the glass frills at the rim. This wear is only visible on close inspection and is reflected in the price.