Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
Glass, Room 131

Vase

ca. 1890 (designed), circa 1890 (engraved), circa 1890 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Ruby red glass overlaid with opaque white, cameo carved and etched and electroplated with silver overlay.


Object details

Category
Object type
Materials and techniques
Glass, overlay, blown, carved and etched; silver, inlaid
Brief description
Vase, ruby red glass overlaid with opaque white, cameo carved and etched and electroplated with silver overlay, designed by Pierre Erard for Stevens & Williams, Brierley Hill (England), ca. 1890
Physical description
Ruby red glass overlaid with opaque white, cameo carved and etched and electroplated with silver overlay.
Dimensions
  • Height: 22.8cm
Object history
This, and the other related pieces listed, were all purchased at the Sotheby's sale of 'The Royal Brierley Collection of English Glass' (03/03/1998).
Production
Erard and Hodgetts both worked at the Stevens & Williams glassworks (now Royal Brierley Crystal)
Associated objects
Bibliographic references
  • Lot no.155 in Sotheby's catalogue, 'The Royal Brierley Collection of English Glass', 3rd March 1998. R.S. Williams-Thomas, The Crstal Years, (frontispiece). A similar, but smaller, example is illustrated in C. Hajdamach, British Glass 1800-1914, p.217, pl.209.
  • Journal of Glass Studies, vol. 41, 1999, p. 194, no. 31.
Other number
9472 - Glass gallery number
Collection
Accession number
C.119-1998

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Record createdDecember 23, 1998
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