Primary Description:
Bowl, "Blue Animal Bowl". Colorless and opalescent glass; blue, black, pink and red glass enamels; mold-blown (into a wooden bucket), brushed enamels. Wide, slightly flattened cylindrical bowl with lipless fire-polished rim (enameled cobalt blue); straight walls with upper half opalescent, overall enameled decoration of three stylized four-footed "animals" with exposed human faces in profile and wearing blue cat costumes with black spots on the back, the two largest animals have manes and are crouching with outstretched front feet and tails, the third (with eyelashes and reddened cheek) sits on its hind legs with tail extending vertically, mottled green background with long, narrow blue clouds toward top rim; flattened base, partially ground, ground and polished pontil; engraved on pontil in block letters: "BODA/UNIK 841/ULRICA".