
John Sandon
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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.