A rare Stuart and Sons 'Medallion Cameo' glass bowl, circa 1890


Of rounded form in clear glass overlaid in pink and white and carved with two oval panels of roses and fuchsia, the cameo panels reserved on a clear glass ground with hobnail cutting, 11.4cm diam at the widest point
|ProvenanceLeo Kaplan CollectionIn 1887 Frederick Stuart & Sons patented what they called 'Medallion Cameo'. The Pottery Gazette described this as 'the latest Art Production for this season, a most delicate and entirely novel effect in Vases, Bowls, Scent Bottles etc., etc.'. See Charles Hajdamach, British Glass (1991), pp.231-2 and pl.223