Glass 1 The Recent Glass Market 6 John Ainsley I have selected a range of functional and decorative glassware sold at auction in 2012. I have kept the prices below £4,000 and above £100 so are representative of 10 current auction prices across a wide price range. The ubiquitous Lalique remains expensive and does Rene Lalique Sirene dish on not appear to offer investment potential as much as Pair Bohemian ruby flashed other categories of glass do at auction. I have kept 3 raised supports, plateau glass baluster vases, mid Victorian shaded cranberry naked figure with swirling 19thC, broad fluted, gothic glass claret jug, maker’s examples down to the Sirene dish at 1 and £3,900. I hair, approx 14.25 dia. arched friezes, soft gilt scroll mark WD, Birmingham 1898, think so much more could be bought for this kind of signed R. Lalique, c1920. decoration, 28cm high. (gilt swept cylindrical form with money. At 2 I know nothing about American Carnival Kent Auction Galleries, rubbed) (2) Richard diamond cut girdle, bright glass so cannot comment except to suggest that rarity Folkestone. Feb 12. HP: Winterton, Lichfield. Mar 12. cut engraved mount, plain and an identity will be the key factors. More at home £3,300. ABP: £3,894. HP: £560. ABP: £660. hinged cover, angular handle, with Loetz and Daum at 3 and 4, I suggest they be 2 9.25in high. Hartleys, Ilkley. Apr 12. HP: £380. ABP: £448. compared with Lalique on a ‘value for money’ basis. 7 Most readers will be aware that I cannot condone the 11 £800 paid for the Whitefriars at 5, or for that matter the lesser prices at 21 and 25. There is hardly a lot on these pages that isn’t better value for money. The Bohemian pair of vases at 6 are overpriced but there follows a superb suite of stained glass at 7, way, way under Pair of green Carnival Glass priced, a good pair of English aesthetic movement vases plates, 8in. Piers Motley at 8, a cranberry and silver claret jug at 10 and a fine Auctions, Exmouth. Jan 12. English blue cameo glass oil Thomas Webb blue glass cameo vase at 11. At 14 the HP: £2,350. ABP: £2,773. lamp shade, late 19thC, cranberry wall pockets must be a snip at £342. I have possibly Thomas Webb of searched historical sales and cannot find their like Suite of stained/painted glass Stourbridge, frill rim, anywhere. Wall pockets are at risk from passing traffic panels, early 20thC, centre decorated with a rose hip, in the home and there survival suggests storage for panel with a frieze of a lady height 17cm. (minor frits to many years. A further Thomas Webb cameo appears at base rim only) Richard within a pale green arch and 16 and only a repair at the knop has kept the price low dated underneath 1906, set in Winterton, Lichfield. Mar 12. HP: £360. ABP: £424. at just over £300. Apart from the cranberry claret jug 3 blue, yellow and green geo- there are two more claret jugs, both silver-mounted and metric border, 130 x 54.5in, both in flint glass. The first at 12 is unusually engraved Loetz green iridescent art two pairs of panels to match, nouveau vase, early 20thC, 130 x 37in, another pair 76.5 and inscribed and could be said to be a sporting trophy. folded-over rim, decorated x 37in and side panel 76.5 x 12 This should have fetched more. At 19 is a handsome with phanomen pattern of 55in. (6) Hartleys, Ilkley. Jun and more usual art glass silver mounted claret jug and closely formed lines inter- 12. HP: £500. ABP: £590. again £247 is not enough. This will retail at £450-£550. spersed blue kidney shapes, At 17 is a group of early nineteenth century short wines. signed ‘Loetz Austria’, height They survive in their thousands, were only ever used for 10cm. Richard Winterton, Lichfield. Mar 12. HP: display and about £40 each is par for the course. At 20 a £1,350. ABP: £1,593. stained glass window has been attributed to Hardman & Co., who began in 1838 and who by 1844 was one of 4 19thC silver topped claret the world’s leading manufacturers of stained glass. They 8 jug inscribed Walton on finally closed down only four years ago in 2008. Thames Regatta 1892, At 22 is a typical cranberry table centrepiece with a Pair of ruby flashed glass maker’s marked CB London border cut mirror base. Damage is frequently an issue vases, c1880, opaque over- 1885, body engraved with but here it appears to have survived intact. The price is enamelled /gilt decoration of bell flowers, ribbons, flower birds on branches in the heads, star cut base, approx typical and it could go to about £300 at retail, but not a Art Nouveau Daum cameo Aesthetic manner, jewelled 101.5 high. Kent Auction lot more. I prefer the large French opaque glass baluster glass miniature vase. Richard detailing, height 22cm. (2) Galleries, Folkestone. Apr vase at 23 and I am surprised by the poor price of £188, Winterton, Lichfield. Jan 12. Richard Winterton, Lichfield. 12. HP: £340. ABP: £401. unless there is damage or the painting is of modest HP: £1,000. ABP: £1,180. Mar 12. HP: £420. ABP: £495. quality. Even so its display potential is important. At 57cms, more than 20 inches in height it could take up 5 an important home position on a stand and then, with 9 the added height of dried flowers its potential will be realised. So displayed in a retail setting would ensure a return of twice as much at least. At 26 the Edwardian 13 silver inkwell is bigger and better than most which usually sell at about £70. At 29, 30, 32 and 34 are Sabino blue opalescent vase, Michael Harris, Monart and two examples of Ditchfield. mid 20thC, flared cylindrical All are holding up well in a slow market, but Harris and Victorian silver mounted form, moulded in high relief Whitefriars smoked glass coloured glass claret jug with female grape harvesters, Monart usually come better than this. At 35 is Peter flask shaped vase, raised engraved ‘Claret’, London moulded and etched mark, Layton, one of the foremost glass artists of our time. decoration, 32cm high. PF 1894. Brightwells, 6.5in high. Hartleys, Ilkley. There will be a focus on his work at the Cambridge Windibank, Dorking. Feb 12. Leominster. Feb 12. HP: Jun 12. HP: £300. Glass Fair on Sunday 23rd September. See our Fairs HP: £680. ABP: £802. £410. ABP: £483. ABP: £354. News where gold card holders can gain free entry. ANTIQUES INFO - September/October 12 Glass 30 22 18 J Ditchfield Glasform paper- 26 weight, flattened form in the style of a lily pond, iridescent Edwardian heavy clear glass blue finish and hallmarked inkwell/weight, maker J silver frog on lily pad, signed, Grinsell & Sons, Birmingham 4.75in dia. Dee, Atkinson & Table centrepiece, central 1907, square section with 19thC green overlay vase, cranberry and yellow glass Harrison, Driffield. Feb 12. 14 shaped trumpet rim, white plain mount and hinged flat HP: £130. ABP: £153. bulbous bowl, supported on a cover and with hobnail cut enamel with hatched and tapering clear glass stem Pair of late Victorian base and bevelled angles, 4in shaped panels and gilded with swirling knop and three cranberry glass wall pockets, square, 3.5in high. Hartleys, with circles and other motifs, matching bulbous bowls on conical form, overlaid in Ilkley. Jun 12. HP: £150. 13.5in high. Dee, Atkinson & clear glass stems in trefoil 31 white metal with flowering ABP: £177. Harrison, Driffield. Apr 12. form around base, circular grasses, unmarked, 8in high. HP: £220. ABP: £259. mirrored plateau stand with Hartleys, Ilkley. Apr 12. HP: cut border, 11.5in high, 10in Pair of ruby glass lustres, £290. ABP: £342. dia. Dee, Atkinson & 27 floral decoration, 35cm high, and another similar, 35.5cm 15 Harrison, Driffield. Feb 12. HP: £170. ABP: £200. high. (3) Charterhouse, Sherborne. Apr 12. HP: £130. ABP: £153. 23 19 Anthony Stern art glass jug with a green iridescent body, Antique silver topped claret 32 white metal collar and clear jug by Joseph Cook & Son, celery formed handle, signed Large Monart green mottled Petrol pump opaque glass approx 21cm tall, hobnail to base Anthony Stern, 9in bowl, 20thC, flared cylin- light shade ‘National Benzole glass oviform body, plain high. Tring Market Auctions, drical form, unmarked, Mixture’, three sides, by silver top with hinged lid & Tring. Feb 12. HP: £140. 19.25in wide, 7in high. Webb’s Crystal Glass Co Ltd, angular handle, collar lightly ABP: £165. Hartleys, Ilkley. Jun 12. HP: 17in high. Hartleys, Ilkley. Mar engraved ‘F & N.R, July 7th £130. ABP: £153. 12. HP: £270. ABP: £318. 1909’, h/m Birmingham Large French opaque glass 28 1908. A F Brock & Co Ltd, baluster vase, late 19thC, Stockport. Feb 12. HP: £210. over-painted in coloured ABP: £247. enamels of birds amongst 16 flowering foliage, 51cm high. Richard Winterton, Lichfield. 33 Set of 4 Victorian green glass Mar 12. HP: £160. ABP: £188. Pair of clear glass scent bottles, maker Walker & pharmacy bottles, stoppers 24 Hall, Sheffield 1910/11, of with reeded decoration, globular form with leaf cut largest 23.5cm high. PF bodies, with plain mount and Windibank, Dorking. Feb 12. hinged engine turned covers, HP: £125. ABP: £147. 20 one with inner stopper, 4.25in high. Hartleys, Ilkley. Jun 12. Stained and painted church HP: £140. ABP: £165.