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    shop window: post-War glass (page 1 of 3)

    We have been lucky enough to get hold of a part-suite of exquisitely-cut glasses by Thomas Webb & Sons. There are three types of glass (shown much smaller than life-sized in the photo above): a port glass (left, about 12 cm tall), a wine glass (centre, about 13 cm tall), and a sherry glass (right, the same height as the port glass, but with a slightly narrower bowl).

    The bowl of each glass has been cut with a band of six pillars (or reeds), alternating with six double 'Russian stars', contained within a pair of horizontal double-V cuts above and below.The stems are hexagonally-cut, and the feet are all marked with the acid-etched trademark used from c 1950 onward (illustrated below).

    There are twenty-two glasses in all, which we have divided into the following four sets:

    SOLD

    A set of 6 wine glasses (one example shown, much smaller than life-sized, from various angles)

    Our reference:8676 Date: c 1950s
    Manufacturer:Webb Origin:England
    UK Price:£ 65.00 (the 6) US guide price:$ 104.00 (the 6)
    Dimensions:height 13 cm, weight 950 gm (the 6)
    Condition:very good

    A set of 6 port glasses (one example shown, much smaller than life-sized, from various angles)

    Our reference:8677 Date: c 1950s
    Manufacturer:Webb Origin:England
    UK Price:£ 54.00 (the 6) US guide price:$ 86.00 (the 6)
    Dimensions:height 12 cm, weight 720 gm (the 6)
    Condition:very good

    A set of 4 port glasses (one example shown, much smaller than life-sized, from various angles)

    Our reference:8678 Date: c 1950s
    Manufacturer:Webb Origin:England
    UK Price:£ 36.00 (the 4) US guide price:$ 58.00 (the 4)
    Dimensions:height 12 cm, weight 480 gm (the 4)
    Condition:very good

    A set of 6 sherry glasses (one example shown, much smaller than life-sized, from various angles)

    Our reference:8679 Date: c 1950s
    Manufacturer:Webb Origin:England
    UK Price:£ 54.00 (the 6) US guide price:$ 86.00 (the 6)
    Dimensions:height 12 cm, weight 670 gm (the 6)
    Condition:very good

    SOLD

    A small, but unusually heavy (and particularly nicely-marked, in our opinion) cylindrical Mdina vase (shown much smaller than life-sized, from various angles) of the sort that we always describe as 'decorated with abstract landscape' in the usual 'Mediterranean' palette of colurs. Vibro-pen engraved 'Mdina' to the base (just about visible in the very poor photo below!)

    Our reference:8661 Date: c 1980
    Manufacturer:Mdina Origin:Malta
    UK Price:£ 45.00 US guide price:$ 72.00
    Dimensions:height 11 cm, weight 735 gm
    Condition:very good

    detail of cutting

    SOLD

    Although we are unable to prove it categorically, we are certain that this vase (shown much smaller than life-sized, from various angles) is a product of the Royal Brierley glassworks. The shape of the olive-green cased body is exactly the same as Brierley's regularly-used 'Amphora' shape, the floral cutting of the upper part is typical of them, as are the (sixteen) flute-cuts to the lower part, and the star-cut base

    Our reference:8656 Date: c 1990s
    Manufacturer:probably
    Royal Brierley
    Origin:England
    UK Price:£ 65.00 US guide price:$ 104.00
    Dimensions:height 20 cm, weight 870 gm
    Condition:very good

    A Kosta Boda vase (shown much smaller than life-sized, from various angles) designed by Kjell Engman, with fired-on transfers of birds and trees in a landscape, the sky of translucent white, overlaid with green and brown speckles to represent the ground. Base engraved 'Kosta Boda, K Engman, 58203', with original label (see details below)

    Our reference:8638 Date:c 1980s
    Manufacturer:Kosta Boda Origin:Sweden
    UK Price:£ 75.00 US guide price:$ 120.00
    Dimensions:height 14 cm, weight 1265 gm
    Condition:very good

    SOLD

    A cased teal-green bullicante ribbed dish (shown much smaller than life-sized, from various angles) with included gold leaf, the rim folded out at the corners and inward at the sides. The dish dates from the 1940s, and is probably by Archimede Seguso

    Although the dish is mainly in good condition, there are a couple of small, shallow chips to the corners, which could be ground off very easily at little cost. The larger of the two is shown in the detail below left, and again, outlined in red, at right. The damage is reflected in the low asking price

    Our reference:8640 Date:1940s
    Manufacturer:probably
    Archimede Seguso
    Origin:Italy
    UK Price:£ 30.00 US guide price:$ 48.00
    Dimensions:length 19.5 cm, weight 1295 gm
    Condition:see description

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