Hand Painted Raffia Vernonware - Made in California: 93,900 ppm Lead in the glaze. 90 ppm is unsafe for kids.

When tested with an XRF instrument the small hand painted Raffia Vernonware bowl pictured here had the following readings:

Center of the food surface of dish:

Lead (Pb): 93,900 +/- 3,400 ppm
Tin (Sn): 2,221 +/- 152 ppm
Zinc (Zn): 969+/- 94 ppm
Iron (Fe): 1,011 +/- 237 ppm
Vanadium (V): 208 +/- 50 ppm
Titanium (Ti): 294 +/- 71 ppm
Zirconium (Zr): 3,433 +/- 191 ppm

This dish was tested for a minimum of 60-seconds on each component with each (repeated) test to make sure to report the most accurate possible reading.

I will update this post with more information shortly, but in the meantime – please read some of the other posts I have written about vintage dishware to better understand the test results reported on this website.

As always – thank you for reading and for sharing my posts.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Tamara Rubin
#LeadSafeMama