Unbranded Vintage Ceramic Measuring Bowl with Bunny and Flowers: tested positive for Lead, Cobalt & Cadmium.

Introduction:

Tamara Rubin is a Federal award winning independent advocate for consumer goods safety and childhood Lead poisoning prevention. She is also a mother of Lead-poisoned children. She began testing consumer goods for toxicants in 2009, and was the parent-advocate responsible for finding Lead in the popular fidget spinner toys in 2017. She uses XRF testing (a scientific method used by the Consumer Product Safety Commission) to test consumer goods for metallic toxicants (including Lead, Cadmium, Mercury and Arsenic). To read more about the testing methodology employed for the test results reported on this blog, please click this link.

Short (3-minute) video discussing this dish:

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September 6, 2021 – Monday
XRF test results for the vintage floral measuring bowl with bunny pictured

Reading #1) focus on red glazed area
60-second reading

• Lead (Pb): 269 +/- 12 ppm
• Cadmium (Cd): 383 +/- 7 ppm
• Mercury (Hg): non-detect
• Bromine (Br): non-detect
• Chromium (Cr): 1,445 +/- 145 ppm
• Vanadium (V): 1,403 +/- 306 ppm
• Manganese (Mn): 168 +/- 77 ppm
• Iron (Fe): 2,389 +/- 78 ppm
• Cobalt (Co): 516 +/- 35 ppm
• Nickel (Ni): 395 +/- 33 ppm
• Copper (Cu): 331 +/- 18 ppm
• Zinc (Zn): 2,788 +/- 45 ppm
• Selenium (Se): 370 +/- 10 ppm
• Titanium (Ti): 1,789 +/- 566 ppm
• Zirconium (Zr): 7,997 +/- 88 ppm
• Nb: 349 +/- 9 ppm
• Indium (In): 5 +/- 3 ppm
• Tin (Sn): 25 +/- 4 ppm
• Barium (Ba): 422 +/- 17 ppm
• Platinum (Pt): 156 +/- 19 ppm
• Bismuth (Bi): 109 +/- 7 ppm

Reading #2) focus on blue glazed area
60-second reading

• Lead (Pb): 490 +/- 12 ppm
• Cadmium (Cd): 16 +/- 2 ppm
• Mercury (Hg): non-detect
• Bromine (Br): non-detect
• Chromium (Cr): 3,408 +/- 170 ppm
• Vanadium (V): 5.535 +/- 329 ppm
• Manganese (Mn): 286 +/- 78 ppm
• Iron (Fe): 1,657 +/- 63 ppm
• Cobalt (Co): 3,243 +/- 69 ppm
• Nickel (Ni): 139 +/- 29 ppm
• Copper (Cu): 212 +/- 15 ppm
• Zinc (Zn): 2,621 +/- 41 ppm
• Titanium (Ti): 2,223 +/- 534 ppm
• Zirconium (Zr): 5,238 +/- 54 ppm
• Nb: 213 +/- 8 ppm
• Tin (Sn): 25 +/- 4 ppm
• Barium (Ba): 468 +/- 15 ppm
• Platinum (Pt): 77 +/- 16 ppm
• Bismuth (Bi): 95 +/- 6 ppm

Reading #3) focus on white glazed area
60-second reading

• Lead (Pb): 284 +/- 9 ppm
• Cadmium (Cd): 9 +/- 2 ppm
• Mercury (Hg): non-detect
• Bromine (Br): non-detect
• Chromium (Cr): non-detect
• Vanadium (V): 1,151 +/- 296 ppm
• Manganese (Mn): 239 +/- 71 ppm
• Iron (Fe): 2,069 +/- 69 ppm
• Zinc (Zn): 2,045 +/- 35 ppm
• Titanium (Ti): 4,824 +/- 577 ppm
• Zirconium (Zr): 401 +/- 6 ppm
• Nb: 299 +/- 8 ppm
• Indium (In): 7 +/- 3 ppm
• Tin (Sn): 22 +/- 3 ppm
• Barium (Ba): 342 +/- 13 ppm
• Bismuth (Bi): 127 +/- 6 ppm

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Update: Tuesday – September 7, 2021

The owner of this cup shared that she is not sure if it is vintage. She received it as a gift several years ago and it is part of a nested set. She provided this photograph of the bottom of one of the other pieces in the set which does have maker’s mark information. It states “Made in China” and appears to be a French brand Nathalie Lete (link).

Continue reading below the image.

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Some additional reading that might be of interest:

• The post discussing the testing methodology used on this website
• Post discussing how to send in an item for testing
• Things that you can test at home.
• Things that might be better tested with an XRF instrument.
• Why home test kits don’t really work on most dishes.

Thanks for reading. Thank you for sharing my posts. As always, please let me know if you have any questions and I will do my best to answer them personally as soon as I have a moment (which may not be right away – but I will try!)

Tamara Rubin
#LeadSafeMama

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