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Message:: [QUOTE="DragonflyWink, post: 10534690, member: 111"]Eh, the 'bride's basket' term came about because cake and/or fruit baskets (which have handles), and made both with and without glass inserts, were popular wedding gifts - can only say that in all my years of poring through period ads and catalogs, believe the earliest I've seen 'bride's baskets' mentioned is the 1910s and they were tall slender pieces intended for flower arrangements.  It's become so common to call various pieces 'bride's baskets', regardless of their form, with or without handles, with or without glass inserts, that few people care what they were actually designed for. While American silver manufacturers might have procured their glass inserts from various sources, believe most were either American or Bohemian - personally, would think this coralene bowl is much more likely Mount Washington (a prolific supplier to the trade) rather than Webb.  Should mention that 'repoussé' is a technique involving hammering a relief design from the reverse... Here is your berry dish shown with a different bowl and different motifs on the bands in an 1883 Derby catalog, not necessarily an indication your bowl isn't original - the manufacturers offered variants in design elements, finishes and inserts: [ATTACH=full]529436[/ATTACH] From Pickvet's 'Encyclopedia of Glass' (2001): [ATTACH=full]529437[/ATTACH] ~Cheryl[/QUOTE]