The following excerpt is given in its entirety and is taken from an article, Commemorative Glass by R. S. Williams-Thomas, that appeared in The Antiques Journal, Jun 1978, pp. 31-33, 47.
In 1904 with the British coronation celebrations over, there was a fascinating commission for Stevens and Williams in the form of a magnificent 18-inch-long, oval, canoe-shaped bowl in carved floral Rock Crystal with a scalloped top to accentuate the shape of the wheel sculptured flowers. It was a christening bowl for the Russian Royal family. A facsimile remained in the factory showroom up to 1940, when it was feared that German bombs might destroy it. It was sent to, and remains, in a collector's home in Canada. The original: might it still be in the Kremlin?
Updated 15 Feb 2000