Antique Mt Washington Glass Coralene Seaweed Custard Glass Vase 7\" Uranium Glow For Sale

Up for your consideration is a truly remarkable piece of 19th-century American art glass: an authentic Mt. Washington Glass Company custard satin glass cabinet vase standing an impressive 7 inches tall and 4\" wide, manufactured between 1880 - 1890.
This exquisite Victorian specimen features an elegant, bulbous body tapering into a flawlessly crimped and ruffled rim, showcasing the finest hand-blown craftsmanship of the era.
The vase is decorated with a beautiful, highly detailed coralene \"seaweed\" or branching coral pattern.
This challenging technique involved painting a meticulous enamel design onto the satin base, pressing thousands of microscopic glass beads into the adhesive, and firing the piece a second time to fuse the elements together.
This piece has been meticulously preserved in a high-end estate collection and is in pristine, mint condition. The fragile yellow coralene branching is 99% intact. The delicate ruffled rim is completely free of the typical chips, flea-bites, or rough handling wear that plagues glass of this age.
The bottom features the correct, deeply recessed, rough unpolished pontil scar, proving its hand-blown, The opaque creamy-yellow custard glass base was formulated with uranium oxide, yielding an extraordinarily bright, neon green glow under a standard UV blacklight. The contrast created under blacklight is phenomenal, as the glowing uranium base forces the applied coralene branches to stand out in sharp, dark relief. This is a premier showcase piece for any uranium glass cabinet.