Art Deco Monart sea-green and blue glass bowl with silver Inclusions c1930s. Circular flared bowl with broad rim. Sea-green to bowl merging to blue at rim with silver foil inclusions. Ground pontil mark to base. Shape UB, size VI. The bowl is 24 cm in diameter and 7 cm in height. As is typical of Monart glass, the bowl is unsigned.
 
The product of an unlikely collaboration between the Spaniard Salvador Ysart and Isobel Moncrieff at an industrial glassworks in Perth, this distinctive glass was manufactured by family members in two distinct phases from about 1922 until c.1961: first under the name Monart at Moncrieff's and from 1946 at the Shore Works as Ysart Brothers Glass. Unlike post-War Ysart that typically carries an acid-etched signature, very few pieces of Monart glass were ever signed. The major difference between the pre-War Monart glass and that of the post-War Yasart era is in the range of production colours and a wider range of shapes. Typically, Yasart reflected the more muted tastes of the 1940s and 50s with softer pastel shades.