Antique Uranium Ruffled Rim Trumpet Vase Centrepiece by H. G. Richardson, c1800s

Antique Uranium Ruffled Rim Trumpet Vase Centrepiece by H. G. Richardson, c1800s

116mm vase height 114mm ruffled rim diameter 52mm waist diameter 25mm stem diameter 80mm base diameter 16mm pontil mark diameter 175 grams

Absolutely breathtaking, this rare high quality Victorian decorative uranium glass centrepiece is in very good condition, handblown by one of the Richardson’s: H. G., W.H., B., and J. Richardson, at Wordsley (in the glassmaking district of Stourbridge, England) during the inaugural period when uranium glassware first made its documented appearance in the 1830’s

This beautiful decorative Victorian centrepiece is approximately 175 years old, featuring H. G. Richardson’s stylised splayed glass leaf feet and convolvulus ruffled rim, which was the designers recognisable and distinctive decorative style

Glows bright green in ultraviolet light

Truely wonderful and significantly historical glassware of very high quality craftsmanship. Rare to find an H. G. Richardson piece in such good condition with no damage

Between 1848 to 1851 the Richardson and Son’s Glassmakers hand crafted a high quality selection of sophisticated styles of uranium glass tableware and inspirational centrepieces. In 1851 at the Great Exhibition held at the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, Richardson won a Bronze Medal for crystal and coloured glass and secured an order of glass from Queen Victoria

On February 14, 1852, W.H., B. and J. Richardson was declared insolvent

Buyer is welcome to pick up goods from Osprey Drive, Welcome Bay