No-one likes general adverts, and ours hadn't been updated for ages, so we're having a clear-out and a change round to make the new ones useful to you. These new adverts bring in a small amount to help pay for the board and keep it free for you to use, so please do use them whenever you can, Let our links help you find great books on glass or a new piece for your collection. Thank you for supporting the Board.

Author Topic: Sessionist/Bauhaus/Weiner Werksatte? Opaline, enamelled candlesticks ID = S&W  (Read 2444 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline Greg.

  • Members
  • **
  • Posts: 1830
Thanks, they are indeed lovely piece in the flesh so to speak.

Never did come across a stand for my bowl  ;)

Offline Paul S.

  • Members
  • **
  • Posts: 10045
  • Gender: Male
thanks Greg  -  I'd obviously misunderstood and had wrongly assumed the patent belonged to S. & W.   -   thanks for the clarification :)

Offline Paul S.

  • Members
  • **
  • Posts: 10045
  • Gender: Male
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?

Offline Greg.

  • Members
  • **
  • Posts: 1830
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/

 

SMF spam blocked by CleanTalk
Visit the Glass Encyclopedia
link to glass encyclopedia
Visit the Online Glass Museum
link to glass museum


This website is provided by Angela Bowey, PO Box 113, Paihia 0247, New Zealand