£150 - £250
A FINE 19TH CENTURY THOMAS WEBB & SONS OF STOURBRIDGE AESTHETIC MOVEMENT GLASS CALRET JUG AND STOPPER, CIRCA 1878 - 1880
With stork and bulrushes pattern, engraved decoration, attributed to early work of Bohemian Engraver Frederick Enclebert, KNY, working at Thomas Webb, 1860 - 1896, glass carafe of ovoid form, with loop handle, finely engraved to both sides with oval cartouches, one depicting a standing stork, symbol of a family and faithfulness within stylised scrolling border, raised on a star cut base.
(h 31.5cm, original stopper h 11cm)
Condition: good overall, almost pristine condition
N.B. very few works signed by Kny exist, first pattern at Thomas Webb, 1878, were bulrushes and fish, see Victoria & Albert archives, Stourbridge Glass Museum, Thomas Webb Encyclopaedia
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