Topic: Thomas Webb Large Cameo Vases - one unfinished

[chopin-liszt]

Thank-you very much, Mike - I love the mushrooms!
(I'm not "big" on flowery stuff, but I can see the quality.  :thup: )

[scimiman]

I am pleased you like.
Mike www.abfabglass.co.uk

[bristolblueglass]

Heres a link to some of her work.  http://www.abfabglass.co.uk/page22.html

Mike www.abfabglass.co.uk

This is lovely work Mike. I really like the yellow under white. I've not really known about cameo glass for very long. Its only since I was tasked to photograph our museum that I really got an intimate look at the pieces. I have since been on line and seen quite a bit of the stunning work that Webb made in the past which is of international importance.

We make Graal glass at the moment which uses the overlay technique; bringing a post and a bubble together and then overlaying the bubble. It can be quite tricky when overlaying more than one colour or mixed colours. Is it safe to say that is how Cameo is produced? Or would a second furnace be used at high temperatures to dip the overlays?

Ben

[scimiman]

Richard always had 4+ colourways on the go so he would dip the pieces into the colourways he & Terri wanted. Not an easy skill to aquire as the overlays have to be so thin otherwise you dont get the definition in the carving.
Richard & Terri would normally choose a base colour and then overlay with white and a very dark purple which to all intense and purposes showed up black.
Mike www.abfabglass.co.uk

[scimiman]

I should have added that up until 10 years ago Terri had never ever done a piece of Cameo work, she was at Okra as a Paintress and she was fantastic at it. (See her enamel work on my site)  Richard and Terri were sat there discussing various designs and Terri was doodling for want of a better exspression with a pencil on paper, Richard noticed and thought that if Terri could do that with pencil and paper then to take it one step further into the world of Cameo should be possible. As they say the rest is history. Terri has never received any form of training in how to Cameo its just pure British artistic ability, something which is not praised in this country loud enough.
I know she will be over the moon with all your comments.
Mike www.abfabglass.co.uk