3 Jun 2009
10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street
Fine British & European Glass & Paperweights
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Fine British & European Glass & Paperweights
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A fine pair of engraved coin goblets by Thomas Hudson
Circa 1840.
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, each with slender flaring bucket bowl decorated with a man carrying an axe, smoking a pipe, his dog beside him, after a painting of The Woodsman by Thomas Barker of Bath (1767-1847), within a rectangular panel, the reverse with monogram WAS within an oval cartouche below a basket of flowers, flanked by floral sprays, above a band of broad faceted flutes, set on a hollow ball knop containing either a Maundy silver 1½d or a 2d coin, dated 1834 and 1838 respectively, flanked by collars over a wide circular foot, 25.6cm high (2)
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, each with slender flaring bucket bowl decorated with a man carrying an axe, smoking a pipe, his dog beside him, after a painting of The Woodsman by Thomas Barker of Bath (1767-1847), within a rectangular panel, the reverse with monogram WAS within an oval cartouche below a basket of flowers, flanked by floral sprays, above a band of broad faceted flutes, set on a hollow ball knop containing either a Maundy silver 1½d or a 2d coin, dated 1834 and 1838 respectively, flanked by collars over a wide circular foot, 25.6cm high (2)
Sold for
£960
inc. premium
Footnotes
- Although neither goblet is signed it is clear from the engraving that stylistically the work is that of Thomas Hudson of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. A goblet with a portrait of a racehorse and jockey, signed by Hudson and also bearing a coin dated 1838, is to be found in Broadfield House Glass Museum - see Leach (1990). It is most unusual and rare to find the traditional broader bucket-bowl rummer developed into a tall goblet, presumably to accommodate the figurative image
Category: Decorative Arts / European Ceramics
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