The 'Well Spring' Carafe
Designer:
Redgrave, Richard
Glassworks:
John Fell Christy
Glassworks:
Stangate Glass Works
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.
History note: Charles and Lavinia Handley-Read Collection; both died 1971; purchased from Thomas Stainton, executor of the Handley-Read Estate
Purchased with the Perceval Fund and grant-in-aid from the Victoria and Albert Museum
Diameter: 10.2 cm
Height: 16.0 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1972-10-19) by Handley-Read Estate
19th Century, Late#
Victoria I
Production date:
circa
AD 1847
: The design was registered on 3 June 1847
This was the first product designed by Richard Redgrave for Felix Summerly's Art Manufactures
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( green and red)
gold
Body
Inscription present: Registration mark for 1847
Inscription present: within a rectangular outline with a downward pointing V at its centre, and over it an anchor in an circular outline
Accession number: C.50-1972
Primary reference Number: 26927
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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