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An important Thomas Webb & Sons jewelled cameo glass vase, circa 1885 image 1
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Lot 149

An important Thomas Webb & Sons jewelled cameo glass vase, circa 1885

14 November 2018, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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An important Thomas Webb & Sons jewelled cameo glass vase, circa 1885

In the Indian taste, the glass delicately shaded to imitate the appearance of ivory, the spherical body carved in low relief with pendant swags set with simulated ruby cabochons, the various formal borders also set with red glass jewels, 14cm high, etched mark Thos. Webb & Sons.

Footnotes

The design appears in the Ivory glass pattern book as I (or J) 648, one of a series of related vases each applied with coloured glass jewels. The costings book gives this as a 5 1/2in vase with individual costs of 18/- for engraving, 20/- for etching and 4/6d for painting. The Jewels were costed at 1/- each. With 1/- for brushing this gives a total cost of 79s/6d. The vase sold for 90/-, representing a relatively small profit of 15 shillings.

Very few jewelled cameo vases have survived. The vase illustrated alongside the present lot in the pattern book, design number I.647, is illustrated by Ray and Lee Grover, English Cameo Glass (1980), col. pl. C36.

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