White on blue over ruby cameo vase. The upper part with a freeze of draped acanthus leaves supporting wind blowing winged faces and a phoenix. The lower part with swags and dragon flies. Signed Thomas Webb & Sons GEM Cameo, together with the original Thomas Goode paper label. Unrecorded. The work possibly executed by Frederick E. Kny.
Thomas Webb & Sons GEM Cameo signature. This variant was long thought to be a fake signature.
5½” Ivory coloured flattened bottle form vase padded with various colours. The oriental inspired cameo decoration is an underwater scene with incense burners. Pattern similar to W2423. Signed Thomas Webb & Sons. Image courtesy of Sotheby’s, New York.
White on ruby over satinised flint flat sided cameo vase. The river side decoration show a Kingfisher and Heron in flight amongst vegetation. The neck finely carved with a band of half flower-heads above folded trompe l’oeil curtain cut in a Chinoiserie style with branches of blossoms. Attributed to Thomas Webb & Sons. Unrecorded. Image courtesy of Sotheby’s, New York.
White on ruby over satinised flint flat sided cameo vase. The river side decoration show a Kingfisher and Heron in flight amongst vegetation. The neck finely carved with a band of half flower-heads above folded trompe l’oeil curtain cut in a Chinoiserie style with branches of blossoms. Attributed to Thomas Webb & Sons. Unrecorded. Image courtesy of Sotheby’s, New York.
Old Ivory cameo toilet bottle stained with an iron-red ground either side of a band of formal flower heads against green ground, the upper and lower decoration in two tones of gilding, etched THOMAS WEBB & SONS banner mark. The silver marked for Thomas Webb and Sons Ltd, London 1902. Image courtesy of Sotheby’s, New York.
Square, knocked in cased tinted flint on opal with ruby inside cameo vase. All over acid etched floral decoration. The circular bottom section is engraved through with leaf decoration. Image courtesy of Sotheby’s, New York.
Two handled, white on ruby over yellow ground cameo vase with two dancing maidens. The reverse with a grotesque mask and leaf and berry sprays, the handles also have the same leaf and berry design. Probably W1753 illustrated by Beard in Fig. 36. Signed G.Woodall; the base with Thomas Webb & Sons Gem Cameo. Image courtesy of Sotheby’s, New York.
White on blue cameo vase with Renaissance grotesque ornament, the reverse with a small scroll arbor supporting two rabbits. Pattern W3202 dated 1899. Singed to based Thos. Webb & Sons. Image courtesy of Sotheby’s, New York.
White over brown cameo vase carved with a female figure playing a harp on a rock in the sea. Pattern GW157. Signed Geo. Woodall and engraved “SYRENA” to the base. Dated c. 1914. Image courtesy of Sotheby’s, New York.
