Marigold-colored carnival glass candy dish is made of glass. A classic pedestal and ruffled rim silhouette. The approximate size is 5″ wide x 3″ tall. There is a long scratch on the dish surface. ADDITIONAL NOTES Carnival glass is moulded or pressed glass to which an iridescent surface shimmer has been applied. The keys to its appeal were that it looked superficially like the much finer and much more expensive blown iridescent glass by Tiffany, Loetz, and others. Carnival glass has been known by many other names in the past: aurora glass, dope glass, rainbow glass, taffeta glass, and disparagingly as ‘poor man’s Tiffany’. Its current name was adopted by collectors in the 1950s from the fact that it was sometimes given as prizes at carnivals, fetes, and fairgrounds. See Additional Information for shipping dimensions.
