The drawing of this type of glass, with freely drawn chinoiseries in bold colours on a densely opacified glass body, have been compared to the decoration found on Staffordshire salt-glazed stoneware and on the early chinoiseries on Worcester porcelain.

Glass of this type was once attributed to Bristol and the delft painter William Edkins; a Staffordshire attribution is now generally accepted.

Worcester circa 1753, Bristol Museum & Art Gallery

Provenance:
Mrs Applewhaite-Abbott, Sotheby’s, 30th June 1952
Christie’s 14th December 1983, lot 50
Anthony du Boulay Collection

Literature:

Manners 2024
E & H Manners, ‘Decorators of Glass and Ceramics’, 2024, no. 61

Exhibited:

Delomosne 1978
‘Gilding the Lily’, Delomosne & Son Ltd., 1978

Price:£4,500