Australian Carnival Glass Dish

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Crown Crystal Glass Co

c. 1930

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Overview

Pressed glass bowl made of marigold Australian carnival glass decorated with the Kookaburra design. The Kookaburra design features a Kookaburra in the flat centre inside of the bowl surrounded by a wreath with wattle flowers on leafy twigs and waratah flowers.

Historical information

Crown Crystal Glass Company of Sydney registered the Kookaburra design in 1923 under the Registered Design number RD 4184.

The Powerhouse Museum has this to say about Australian Carnival glass.

"Most Carnival glass made in Australia was produced between 1924 and about 1930. Australian Crystal Glass Limited was established in Sydney in 1914 making pressed and, until 1917, hand blown glass. The 1920s saw the expansion of the Australian glass industry and the amalgamation of several glass factories. In 1926 Australian Crystal Glass Ltd (also trading as Crystal Glass Limited) joined with the Crown Glass Works, an off-shoot of the Australian Glass Manufacturers Company Ltd, to form Crown Crystal Glass Pty Ltd., with about 200 Sydney employees and more than 1500 by 1959. Carnival Glass was produced mainly between 1924-1930 in a range of iridescent colours similar to its American counterpart, and many of the items incorporated Australian motifs of kookaburras, kangaroos and emus."

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-124-2019.116

Item type

Collectibles

Objects

Material

Pressed Glass

Width

25 cm

Depth

8 cm

Themes

Social History

Contextual Information

This item was donated by Hilda Lord, wife of Geoff Lord who was President of the Busselton Historical Society in 1975 and instrumental in establishing the Museum in the Old Butter Factory Museum.

The Lord family arrived in the Busselton area in 1922 as one of the original Group settlement families at Chapman Hill/ Walsall. The Group Settlement scheme was a Western Australian/ United Kingdom government migration scheme introduced in 1921, to provide a labour force to develop agricultural land in the South West region of Western Australia, reduce unemployment in the United Kingdom and reduce dependence on food imports from interstate. Members of the Lord family have been active community members in the Busselton region since they arrived in 1922.

Keywords

Australian Carnival Glass

Place made

Sydney
NSW
Australia

Year

c. 1930

Primary significance criteria

Social or spiritual significance

Related Objects

Parent records

CABINET 1.6.1 The Taylor Cabinet

Busselton Historical Society