Lot Essay
The present vase is the earliest and largest of all the 'Night' vases designed and executed by George Woodall.
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CAMEO GLASS AND CERAMICS FROM A DISTINGUISHED NEW YORK COLLECTION (LOTS 1-33)
A THOMAS WEBB & SONS CAMEO GLASS ALLEGORICAL VASE, ‘NIGHT’
CIRCA 1900, TITLED ON THE UNDERSIDE, ‘NIGHT’ DESIGNED BY AND SIGNED IN INTALGIO GEO. WOODALL
Details
A THOMAS WEBB & SONS CAMEO GLASS ALLEGORICAL VASE, ‘NIGHT’
CIRCA 1900, TITLED ON THE UNDERSIDE, ‘NIGHT’ DESIGNED BY AND SIGNED IN INTALGIO GEO. WOODALL
Cylindrical, the frosted plum-brown glass wall overlaid in opaque white, the flaring neck finely wheel-engraved with a band of ovolo conjoined by quatrefoil flower-heads above a diaphanously draped maiden standing before a rocky ledge flanked by bats and an owl on a cloudy moonlit night, the socle foot edged by lilies of the valley
13 ¼ in. (33.6 cm.) high
CIRCA 1900, TITLED ON THE UNDERSIDE, ‘NIGHT’ DESIGNED BY AND SIGNED IN INTALGIO GEO. WOODALL
Cylindrical, the frosted plum-brown glass wall overlaid in opaque white, the flaring neck finely wheel-engraved with a band of ovolo conjoined by quatrefoil flower-heads above a diaphanously draped maiden standing before a rocky ledge flanked by bats and an owl on a cloudy moonlit night, the socle foot edged by lilies of the valley
13 ¼ in. (33.6 cm.) high
Provenance
Anna Wolfson Collection.
With Leo Kaplan, Ltd., New York.
With Leo Kaplan, Ltd., New York.
Literature
G. Beard, Nineteenth Century Cameo Glass, Newport, Monmouthshire, 1956, pp. 42-43, col. pl. C.
C. Woodall Perry, The Cameo Glass of Thomas and George Woodall, Somerset, U.K., 2000, p. 101 (mislabeled as GW23) and p. 127, GW003 for an entry in the 'Thomas Webb & Sons’ Price Book'.
R. and L. Grover, English Cameo Glass, New York, 1980, p. 97, pl. 58 for the present vase (mislabeled as GW23) and p. 313 (S33) for a line drawing from the 'Webb Pattern Book' (GW3) and p. 197, no. GW3 for an entry in the reprinted ledger.
C. Woodall Perry, The Cameo Glass of Thomas and George Woodall, Somerset, U.K., 2000, p. 101 (mislabeled as GW23) and p. 127, GW003 for an entry in the 'Thomas Webb & Sons’ Price Book'.
R. and L. Grover, English Cameo Glass, New York, 1980, p. 97, pl. 58 for the present vase (mislabeled as GW23) and p. 313 (S33) for a line drawing from the 'Webb Pattern Book' (GW3) and p. 197, no. GW3 for an entry in the reprinted ledger.
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