An English Cameo Glass Lamp Base, attributed to Thomas Webb & Sons, Circa 1889, probably designed by George Woodall

A carved bottle-shaped lamp base of this form and dimensions is illustrated in David Whitehouse, English Cameo Glass in The Corning Museum, Corning, 1994, pp. 52-53, fig. 48, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Leonard S. Rakow, acc. no. 82.2.16. The author reproduces a photograph of glass in Thomas Goode & Co.'s London showroom of about 1891, showing the lamp base, or one very similar to it, to the side of 'The Great Tazza', both of which were exhibited at the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1889. The photograph also shows a second lamp base flanking the tazza, of near identical design to the present lot with only slight differences in the ornamentation.

Other noteworthy examples of this scale in rare pink and white carving over blue glass include:

a bottle vase in the Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire, Gift of Priscilla and Albert C. Murray, acc. no. 1974.33.6;

a bottle vase in the Royal Ontario Museum, Ontario, acc. no. 928.18.17;

and a third bottle vase illustrated in C. Woodall Perry, The Cameo Glass of Thomas & George Woodall, 2000, p. 50.