The 'Well Spring' Carafe: C.50-1972

Current Location: In storage

Titles

The 'Well Spring' Carafe

Maker(s)

Designer: Redgrave, Richard
Glassworks: John Fell Christy
Glassworks: Stangate Glass Works

Entities

Carafe

Categories

Glass

Description

Clear lead glass, blown, enamelled in shades of green, with yellow, white and red, and gilded. Bulbous ovoid body with short flared neck, standing on a low foot. The sides are decorated with water weeds above which is a wreath of white and yellow flowers round the base of the neck. The foot is decorated with red criss-cross strokes which extend a short distance up the sides. The rim is gilt.

Notes

History note: Charles and Lavinia Handley-Read Collection; both died 1971; purchased from Thomas Stainton, executor of the Handley-Read Estate

Legal notes

Purchased with the Perceval Fund and grant-in-aid from the Victoria and Albert Museum

Measurements and weight

Diameter: 10.2 cm
Height: 16.0 cm

Place(s) associated

London ⪼ England

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bought (1972-10-19) by Handley-Read Estate

Dating

19th Century, Late#
Victoria I
Production date: circa AD 1847 : The design was registered on 3 June 1847

Note

This was the first product designed by Richard Redgrave for Felix Summerly's Art Manufactures

School or Style

Components of the work

Decoration composed of enamels ( green and red) gold
Body

Materials used in production

Inscription or legends present

Inscription present: Registration mark for 1847

Method of creation: Enamelled
Type: Registration mark

Inscription present: within a rectangular outline with a downward pointing V at its centre, and over it an anchor in an circular outline

Text: R REDGRAVE ARA
Location: On base
Method of creation: Printed
Type: Mark

References and bibliographic entries

Victorian and Edwardian Decorative Art , The Handley-Read Collection
British Glass 1830-1900
Glass at the Fitzwilliam Museum page(s): pp. 123-4
Nineteenth Century British Glass
Felix Summerly's Art Manufactures page(s): pp. 28-33
Victorian Glass
The Victoria and Albert Museum. The Making of the Collection page(s): p. 4
Richard Redgrave 1804-1888 page(s): 38
Applied Art and Industrial Design 1800 - the present page(s): p. 40
The Glass Cone, Autumn 2004 page(s): 12
Furniture and Works of Art

Related exhibitions

Identification numbers

Accession number: C.50-1972
Primary reference Number: 26927
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Wednesday 27 September 2017

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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