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Author Topic: Bowl with gilded & silvered insects,applied fish feet,ruby glass eyes  (Read 10782 times)

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Re: Bowl with gilded & silvered insects,applied fish feet,ruby glass eyes
« Reply #40 on: October 09, 2018, 09:31:06 PM »
Not Stevens and Williams I believe.


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Re: Bowl with gilded & silvered insects,applied fish feet,ruby glass eyes
« Reply #41 on: October 10, 2018, 12:46:00 AM »
and because I like to take guesses just in case they turn out to be right, I think the lizards on this one have the same enamelled white and red eye and the same enamelled mouth as my bowl. I also think this bowl has flat gilding on the bowl in the same way the butterflies on mine are flat gilded.
So I think it's a distinct possibility they are from the same maker. ( Possibly Thomas Webb  )   :)
https://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,37302.msg204119.html#msg204119
https://www.glassmessages.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=37302.0;attach=60652;image

This is a Thomas Webb piece in the V&A collection - also enamelled mouth (different enamel this time) and also what appears to be flat gilding on it:
http://media.vam.ac.uk/collections/img/2017/JU/2017JU3009_2500.jpg

and the jug that goes with the goblet - similar eyes again and possibly similar enamel red mouth to mine.  And flat gilded:
http://media.vam.ac.uk/collections/img/2017/JR/2017JR6238_2500.jpg


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Re: Bowl with gilded & silvered insects,applied fish feet,ruby glass eyes
« Reply #42 on: June 11, 2020, 09:15:26 PM »
I can't recall if I've added a link to this jug before but the Antique Stourbridge Glass website has a good picture of a Thomas Webb lizard handled jug where the eyes and the mouth are the same as my bowl - red glass on white enamel eyes and the enameled mouth:

http://antiquestourbridgeglass.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/lizard_jug.jpg

Close up of my bowl lizards for ease of comparison:
https://www.glassmessages.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=50401.0;attach=117557;image


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Re: Bowl with gilded & silvered insects,applied fish feet,ruby glass eyes
« Reply #43 on: January 07, 2021, 10:48:13 PM »
Thomas Webb c. 1870 in the Met Museum.
Lots of similarities although this piece has more complex enamelling.

I think my bowl was made at Thomas Webb basically.
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/823108

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Re: Bowl with gilded & silvered insects,applied fish feet,ruby glass eyes
« Reply #44 on: March 17, 2021, 11:30:46 PM »
I've been looking for something else and came upon the goblet and ewer in the V&A again.

Their description has them as Thomas Webb and 'probably Jules Barbe'.

I queried the possibility of Jules Barbe for my bowl earlier in this thread.
 I feel that is a distinct possibility as the butterflies are beautifully enamelled/gilded.

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