Lot Essay
Few Webb vases decorated with animal subjects are known. This is the only example extant with giraffes.
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CAMEO GLASS AND CERAMICS FROM A DISTINGUISHED NEW YORK COLLECTION (LOTS 1-33)
A THOMAS WEBB & SONS CAMEO GLASS VASE OF GIRAFFES
CIRCA 1880, ACID-ETCHED THOMAS WEBB & SONS CRESCENT MARK, RECORDED AS DESIGNED AND CARVED BY THOMAS WOODALL, SIGNED IN INTALGIO G. WOODALL
Details
A THOMAS WEBB & SONS CAMEO GLASS VASE OF GIRAFFES
CIRCA 1880, ACID-ETCHED THOMAS WEBB & SONS CRESCENT MARK, RECORDED AS DESIGNED AND CARVED BY THOMAS WOODALL, SIGNED IN INTALGIO G. WOODALL
Of swelling baluster form, the frosted honey-brown glass wall overlaid in opaque white and finely wheel-engraved with a recumbent and a standing giraffe grazing on a leafy branch, a cluster of palm trees to one side, the domed circular foot edged with leaves
7 1/8 in. (18 cm.) high
CIRCA 1880, ACID-ETCHED THOMAS WEBB & SONS CRESCENT MARK, RECORDED AS DESIGNED AND CARVED BY THOMAS WOODALL, SIGNED IN INTALGIO G. WOODALL
Of swelling baluster form, the frosted honey-brown glass wall overlaid in opaque white and finely wheel-engraved with a recumbent and a standing giraffe grazing on a leafy branch, a cluster of palm trees to one side, the domed circular foot edged with leaves
7 1/8 in. (18 cm.) high
Provenance
Offered for sale at Buckley House, 21 January 1885.
With Leo Kaplan, Ltd., New York.
With Leo Kaplan, Ltd., New York.
Literature
G. Beard, Nineteenth Century Cameo Glass, Newport, Monmouthshire, 1956, pp. 30-31, col. pl. B
R. and L. Grover, English Cameo Glass, New York, 1980, p. 28, C22 (the image reversed).
C. Woodall Perry, The Cameo Glass of Thomas and George Woodall, Somerset, U.K., 2000, p. 64, no. TW569.
R. and L. Grover, English Cameo Glass, New York, 1980, p. 28, C22 (the image reversed).
C. Woodall Perry, The Cameo Glass of Thomas and George Woodall, Somerset, U.K., 2000, p. 64, no. TW569.
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