Ring-type handles on a bowl's insert allowed ferns to be lifted from the bowl for watering and feeding. Because of the in-and-out movement, rims of cut-glass fern bowls were not decorated.

triple notched handles and hobstar base. American Brilliant Cut Glass tazza (shallow bowl of wide form, standing on a footed stem), in the Willow pattern by Hawkes, 5 ¾ inches by 9 inches ...

a pattern cut handle and a hobstar base, sold in the Sept. 10 auction ($21,850). American Brilliant Cut Glass bowl of exceptional quality signed by Hawkes in the Imperial 2 pattern, 3 ½ inches by ...

In Europe, some of this “cut overlay” was made in England but most of it was made by the Bohemian glass companies in what is now the Czech Republic. We believe the bowl belonging to R.