Webb cameo glass claret jug

A Victorian silver-mounted red cameo glass claret jug,

on spreading glass foot decorated with white glass gadrooning,
the body decorated in ruby and white cameo glass with flowers,
an ear of wheat and butterfly, the mounting in silver-gilt.

Glass probably by Thomas Webb

Silver mount by Frederick Bradford McCrea
London, 1885

Two similar examples, one mounted by the same silversmith,
are in The Kent Collection of claret jugs.

26.7 cm high

Webb cameo glass claret jug

 

 

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