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Title: Relief moulded,cut and etched vase,Webb maybe?
Post by: keith on April 20, 2013, 12:17:13 PM

5 inches high,best buy this year,so far,polished pontil mark,dealer was told probably Webb,I'm sure I've seen a similar piece in a book or on the net but can't find it now, ::) ::)
help please, ;D ;D

Title: Re: Relief moulded,cut and etched vase,Webb maybe?
Post by: David E on April 20, 2013, 12:55:19 PM

Certainly has a similar colouring to that used in Webb's Flair range - very nice!

Title: Re: Relief moulded,cut and etched vase,Webb maybe?
Post by: chopin-liszt on April 20, 2013, 01:01:45 PM

I would not rule it out either - it has the appropriate degree of quality. ;D

Title: Re: Relief moulded,cut and etched vase,Webb maybe?
Post by: Paul S. on April 20, 2013, 01:24:11 PM

very nice Keith, drool, drool. ;)          I've a feeling that Thomas Webb used this golden amber long before the Flair range (which was a design range from the early 1960's).        Looking in Hajdamach, it appears on some very high end pieces around 1910  ish, although in much more complex ways.        How is the amber incorportated Keith, is it simply in the projecting feet, or randomly throughout the base?

Title: Re: Relief moulded,cut and etched vase,Webb maybe?
Post by: keith on April 20, 2013, 08:08:46 PM

Thanks all,
Paul,it seems to have been applied on the outside of the feet,I'd swear I saw this somewhere attributed to Stuart although it looks more Webbs, ;D ;D

Title: Re: Relief moulded,cut and etched vase,Webb maybe?
Post by: keith on April 22, 2013, 06:47:48 PM

Or Webb Corbett? scroll down about 10 items,
http://www.artglassnouveau.com/phdi/p1.nsf/supppages/4523?opendocument&part=8

Title: Re: Relief moulded,cut and etched vase,Webb maybe?
Post by: Lustrousstone on April 22, 2013, 07:29:50 PM

Well those ones were marked so I would say so

Title: Re: Relief moulded,cut and etched vase,Webb maybe?
Post by: Paul S. on April 22, 2013, 09:10:16 PM

uhmmm - very tasty - you done well there Keith, congratulations and good sleuthing to boot :)

Title: Re: Relief moulded,cut and etched vase,Webb maybe?
Post by: glasskillian on April 22, 2013, 09:50:25 PM

Rock crystal lovely piece  :o

Title: Re: Relief moulded,cut and etched vase,Webb maybe?
Post by: keith on April 22, 2013, 11:28:42 PM

 ;D ;D

Title: Re: Relief moulded,cut and etched vase,Webb maybe?
Post by: nigel benson on April 23, 2013, 07:00:30 PM

Hello,

Well found Kieth - both the piece and the sleuthing to find it's Webb Corbett :)

However, its not Art Nouveau and really not  rock crystal in the true sense of glass using that term, nor is it psuedo cameo - a term more usually reserved for Thomas Webb pieces.

It is part of a series of wares (maybe four pieces) showing fruit on the bough with, in this case, the applied amber yellow actually being the fruit - plums hanging below the engraved leaves. For some reason these are the vases that appear most, yet as far as I'm concerned are the best of the group. Another from the series can be seen in BGBtheW's if you have a copy. I think it's a black and white image within the enamel section. Given that you will realise immediately that it is c1930. All the pieces have coloured lobes at the base of the vase imitating fruit.

Hope that helps a bit, Nigel ;)

Title: Re: Relief moulded,cut and etched vase,Webb maybe?
Post by: Bernard C on April 23, 2013, 08:28:48 PM

Keith & Nigel — BGbtW p.56 #42.   This example not engraved above the fruit around the base, but enamelled by Hugo Masey.

Bernard C.  8)

Title: Re: Relief moulded,cut and etched vase,Webb maybe?
Post by: keith on April 23, 2013, 11:31:03 PM

Thanks both,I presumed it was just an imitation of 'rock crystal' and certainly not cameo,I have a copy of BGbtW and saw the similarity of the base on item '42' but never put the two together,the reason I had been looking at this piece was an earlier purchase,see below,