Presented is a lovely American Brilliant Period cut glass bowl or dish. This piece is unsigned, like many ABP pieces, but the high quality of the work suggests a high end, well known maker like Hawkes, Tuthill, Dorflinger, or the like. The bowl is beautifully and intricately cut with a very distinctive design of five petaled flowers alternating with foliate fans, all on thorny stems, definitely a stand-out piece and quite possibly a named pattern. The rim is done in a scalloped and toothed form, relatively shallow but suitable for a fruit bowl or small centerpiece.
This piece is in good overall condition. There are a few minors chips here and there mainly to the teeth and the ridges of the fan designs, but nothing noticeable without close inspection. No sickness or clouding to the glass.
The dish measures about 9 inches in diameter and stands about 2 1/2 inches tall at the rim. -jm
