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A good Thomas Webb & Sons 'ivory cameo' glass vase, circa 1885 image 1
A good Thomas Webb & Sons 'ivory cameo' glass vase, circa 1885 image 2
Lot 66

A good Thomas Webb & Sons 'ivory cameo' glass vase, circa 1885

5 June 2019, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

£2,500 - £3,500

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A good Thomas Webb & Sons 'ivory cameo' glass vase, circa 1885

Of double gourd bottle shape, the pale caramel-coloured glass etched in shallow relief on the surface with a wide band of folate scrollwork incorporating two dragon heads, between formal borders, the cameo work heightened in brown enamel, 28.5cm high, etched mark THOS: WEBB & SONS.

Footnotes

This unusually large piece of ivory cameo glass appears in the Thomas Webb & Sons Price Book and the factory pattern books as design I522. This is listed as an 11 1/2 inch vase. Making (Per Turm) 25, etching 18/-, painting 3/6. It sold for 38/- (thirty-eight shillings or £1.90 in today's money). See R & L Grover, English Cameo Glass, p.241 and p.450, drawing S633. The original drawing, reproduced here, is from the Thomas Webb & Sons' Pattern Books Principally For Cameo Glass By The Woodall Team, published by Richard Dennis, p.56.

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