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This 9 1/2" x 5" Fern dish. This one is the best I have seen anywhere. The pattern and maker are unknown at the moment.
Now, I have never seen a fern dish with a cut rim. You always see ferner with a flat rim so a metal liner could fit into the dish.
Two experts in American cut glass, gave the same answer as to what this piece is, a fern dish and not a footed bowl like I thought.
The dish has three feet as all fern dishes do.. An added bounce to this piece are stars cut on the bottom of the feet. I have never seen a decorated foot.
Courtesy of the www:
"Round, square and oval fern bowls equipped with metal liners designed to hold live ferns were common household containers during Pteridomania or fern madness, the popular fern-hunting hobby that began in England during the 1830s and reached America by the 1860s where it lasted until World War I."
Thanks Gillian! Most of the American bowls date from around 1900 to 1915 or so