Antique Mt Washington Satin Blue Handpaint Brides Bowl Silver Crest Metal Basket

Description

This is a beautiful bride's bowl and metal basket. The bowl is a pretty blue color than shades to white in the middle. It is hand painted with a floral and scroll pattern in yellow enamel and dotted in yellow enamel on the ruffled rim. It also has the remnant of gilding around the edges of the enamel, indicating this was a high end piece worthy of the time and cost of applying gilding. Most of the gilding has since worn off but you can see the remnant in the darker areas around the yellow enamel if you zoom in on the pictures. If you look under magnification you can see the sparkle of gold. (Thank you to the kind eBayer who messaged me suggesting I look for the gilding!)
It has a clear, or silver, crest. There are some faint tool marks visible in the areas between the ruffles. There are also some shiny spots and marks in the satin finish (please zoom in on pictures to see). Some of these may come off with a more vigorous cleaning. It is not marked but the colors and pattern are similar to others produced by Mt Washington and they did not always mark their glass so I believe they are the maker.
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he bottom is white and does show some signs of age in the form of marks and a little bit of shiny area where it contacts the basket.
I'm not sure if the basket is plated as it is not marked plated. It does have a mark but I have been unable to identify it in research. It looks like either "MZI" or "VEW" depending on which way you look at it (see picture). There are no chips or cracks in the bowl. There are two very small dents on opposite sides of the underside of the bottom rim of the basket, as if it was set down on something (see last picture).
The bowl is approximately 9" in diameter and 2 1/4" tall. The base (flat part of the bottom) is 3 3/8" in diameter and 9/16" deep. The bowl does move around slightly when sitting in the basket so the basket may not be original to the bowl. The basket is 11 3/4" tall.
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