
John Sandon
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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).