Orange Art Glass Trinket Dish with Dichroic Dots 3″

This dish is part of our Serendipity Collection of home decor. It measures 3″ x 3″.

I hope you enjoy this unique art glass trinket dish. It is functional as well as beautiful. Use it to at serve small foods like candy, nuts or condiments, collect loose change, hold votive candles, contain paper clips, display decorative soap … the uses are endless. Both pretty and versatile, it is a perfect gift for anyone who appreciates the quality of hand made things, either by itself or as a set of two or more.

Creating it was a 6-step process.
Glass Selection: First, two squares of glass were cut to the size of the finished dish and stacked, with clear glass on top of orange.
Creating the Design:
The pebbles were made in advance by heating small pieces of pink dichroic glass in a kiln to 1475 degrees, the temperature at which they melted and their sharp edges become rounded. The pebbles were arranged on top of the stacked clear and orange glass.
Fusing in the Kiln: The assemblage was then carefully placed in the kiln and heated to 1475 degrees, at which point the orange and clear glass fused together and the pebbles melted and sank down, almost flush with the surface.
Refining the Edges: After cooling, the edges were ground to eliminate irregularities.
Shaping the Dish: One more firing was required to transform it into a dish. To do this the flat, fused glass square was placed in the kiln on top of a mold and heated to 1250 degrees. At this temperature the glass softened and gravity caused the square to sink into the mold and assume its final shape.