Australian Carnival Glass Dish

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."