Featured Cobalt blue crystal stemmed dessert bowls

Is there anything special about these bowls? I think so, so I await you knocking me down.

Ever the optimist, I see three very stately ice cream and/or fruit bowls. No maker’s marks and everything pointing to late 19th century:

· Clear resonating ping sound when the rim is flicked, suggesting crystal glass;

· Glass thickening at the bowl rim;

· Bladed or annular knop;

· Circumferential and angular striations in the bowl; circumferential on the foot;

· Occasional small bubble in the glass;

· Pontil marks have been polished.

The height, rim and foot dimensions are very similar, no more than one millimetre difference:

· Height 13.0 cm
· Rim diameter 11.3 cm
· Foot diameter 8.1 cm

It is only in the weight that there is a [significant] difference:

· 165 grams
· 214 grams
· 222 grams

I haven’t found any the same on the internet, so your opinions would be appreciated.

 

Seriously covetting here!

 

They may be earlier, as in early to mid nineteenth. Lovely things.

 

Gorgeous.

I hope that ping means pingping (Dutch colloquial for money).

 

Beautiful. Cobalt sells well and as unusual as that is it should sell like hot cakes.

 

Brian-I'm impressed by your glass knowledge.

 

Thank you. It's the result of putting together all the things I've got wrong, and being pointed jn the right direction to the answers by members of this group.

 

You've also got a great memory-mine's like a glass colander !