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A Thomas Webb and Sons 'Ivory Cameo' glass vase, circa 1885-90 image 1

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A Thomas Webb and Sons 'Ivory Cameo' glass vase, circa 1885-90

British and European Ceramics and Glass

18 May 2016, 10:30 BST

London, Knightsbridge

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A Thomas Webb and Sons 'Ivory Cameo' glass vase, circa 1885-90

Probably designed by George Woodall and executed by F.Kritschman and the Woodall Team, of ovoid form with a flared onion-shaped neck, deeply carved in Indian taste with interlocking panels of figures and beasts including seated noblemen, various animal-headed deities and a series of horsemen with lances or pig-sticking, smaller panels at the neck and base contain birds and foliage, the neck with a band carved with pairs of deer below further bird panels, the carving heightened overall with a dark stained background, 22.3cm high, etched mark Thomas Webb & Sons Cameo (section of the rim restored)

Footnotes

Provenance:
The Dr Ernest Rieger Collection
Estate sale Woody's Auctions, Wichita, 29 May 2014, lot 29
A British private collection

A drawing of this vase occurs in the Woodall Archive as J604 (or W2312) with a note that J604 1/2 was the same coloured in 'old ivory' and J604a the same only gilded. The present vase is probably J604 1/2 which sold for £12. A closely related vase with additional gilding, probably J604a, was sold by Christie's New York 18 November 2014, lot 8. For the drawings see Christopher Woodall Perry, Cameo Glass of George and Thomas Woodall, p.66, and Ray and Lee Grover, English Cameo Glass (1980), p.456, fig.S675. An example with a shorter neck but similar carved decoration is illustrated by Grover, op.cit, pl.99.

Another vase of this shape is shown in a photograph taken by George Woodall of a group of ten ivory cameo vases, one of a series of glass photographic plates preserved in the Woodall family. This photograph is reproduced by Charles Hajdamach, British Glass 1800-1914 (1991), p.230, pl.222.

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