Topic: Sessionist/Bauhaus/Weiner Werksatte? Opaline, enamelled candlesticks ID = S&W

[Greg.]

Thanks, they are indeed lovely piece in the flesh so to speak.

Never did come across a stand for my bowl 

[Paul S.]

thanks Greg  -  I'd obviously misunderstood and had wrongly assumed the patent belonged to S. & W.   -   thanks for the clarification

[Paul S.]

sorry, meant to add ………....   in Williams-Thomas book there is an example of Capewell's enamelled work - on a horseshoe-shaped whisky bottle, and a very colourful hunting scene it is too, though a very different subject matter to the pieces being discussed here.

Two of the author's comments from his book       …………. ""Perhaps Will should be remembered best for his fox-hunting scenes which were cheerful, colourful and pregnant with detail.""

and   …...…… ""Recorded are items in royal blue with gilt designs of festoons and medallions, white alabaster urns with black silhouette Grecian figures.""

Capewell seems to have remained comparatively unknown during his working life.

Finally, Williams-Thomas says ………….     ""In the works museum a "horseshoe" whisky bottle survives, with one of Will's scenes in the centre.""

Anyone know if this 'museum' survives - presumably it passed to R.B., or did the contents end up at Broadfield House?

[Greg.]

For further reference my bowl is shown in the Stevens & Williams pattern book dated February 1917.

I understand that a selection of patterns for Capewell's work, including my bowl, are shown on Dilwyn's website, (Access by subscribers only)

http://antiquestourbridgeglass.co.uk/cold-decoration-navigation/gilt-and-enamel-decoration/pierre-erard/10/