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Another important Thomas Webb and Sons cameo vase by George and Thomas Woodall, circa 1885 image 1
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Lot 247

Another important Thomas Webb and Sons cameo vase by George and Thomas Woodall, circa 1885

18 May 2016, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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Another important Thomas Webb and Sons cameo vase by George and Thomas Woodall, circa 1885

Of ovoid amphora shape, in opalescent white on a brown background, carved with an ancient Greek Charioteer, standing with one arm raised to shade his eyes, the other holding the reins of the spirited horses that draw the chariot on billowing clouds, the reverse with a formal ornament of scrolls and palmettes, the neck and base with various formal classical borders including ivy leaves and keyfret, 31cm high, etched mark Thomas Webb & Sons Gem Cameo

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Provenance:
Thomas Goode & Co, London
Anon Sale, Christie's 9 October 2003, lot 242
A British Private Collection

Although these vases have different borders and slightly-different body shapes, this was undoubtedly intended as a companion vase to the previous lot. The related vases of 'The Race' and 'Before the Race', now in the Chrysler Museum of Art, share this feature of different borders and body forms and these were clearly intended to be complementary.

A smaller vase with a related subject of an empty chariot drawn by two horses was shown by Webbs at the Paris World Exposition in 1889, see Ray and Lee Grover, English Cameo Glass (1980), col. pl.C186. Two other vases with related subjects of classical figures on clouds, 'Mars, the God of War' and 'Ceres Receiving from Bacchus a Restorative Cup' are illustrated by Christopher Woodall Perry, The Cameo Glass of Thomas and George Woodall (2000), p.64 (top right) and P.65 (bottom left).

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