
John Sandon
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Provenance
These bottles were preserved in the collection of the family of Daniel and Lionel Pearce. The raised dark blue leaves on the green glass bottle are moulded, suggesting this is not Chinese in origin and it is likely to have been produced as an experiment at Thomas Webbs. The design for an identical ivory cameo scent bottle occurs in the Webb factory pattern book as J98 (W1959), listed as costing 1s/10d for the cameo work, 3d for brushing and 6d for background painting. It was priced for sale at 5/-. See Grover, p.217 and Dennis Publications' Facsimile of the pattern book, p.35.
These bottles came from the collection of Dorothy and Lionel Pearce and are illustrated by Geoffrey Beard, 19th Century Cameo Glass, pl.24. They were sold by Sotheby's 5 May 1969 lots 20-24 and again 18 July 1983, lots 281-284