ALBERT HENRY FULLWOOD (1863-1930)

ENGLISH TABLE GLASS & ITS DECORATION

BY BILL DAVIS, THE JOHNSTON COLLECTION

The Dutch excelled in engraving glass with a diamond point, both with line engraving where the image was scratched in lines on the glass surface, and with stipple engraving where the image was developed by pitting the glass surface.

There are some examples of line engraving on 17th century English glass, but unlike Continental practice, little English glass was decorated during the early…

High-footed sauceboat

High-footed sauceboat, rococo in style, after silver models of the period, c.1754. The decoration is highly unusual, being European in style, rather than the more usual Chinoiserie. The decoration is exceptionally fine, and has the feeling of Chelsea or Giles rather than Worcester; probably Jefferyes Hamett O’Neale at the Giles workshop. $8,000   ETRURIA ANTIQUES GALLERY 

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9ct solid Yellow and Rose Gold shield, NSW rugby league & French gold antique drop earrings

9ct solid Yellow and Rose Gold shield, NSW rugby league football “life member”, c.1900, engraved “G. Dawson”. This piece can be worn on a chain or off a fob clasp and measures 4cm x 2cm.

$1,650    CHILTON’S ANTIQUES AND JEWELLERY

18ct yellow French gold antique drop earrings with a cluster of seed pearls around a small diamond centre inside the gold ring at the base below a striped and scrolled…

Le Verre Francais – ‘Moderniste’ Vase & Vintage silver gelatin photograph, inscribed and autographed by Noel Coward

Le Verre Francais – ‘Moderniste’ Vase. A rare modernist glass vase of ovoid form with applied foot. The graduated smokey glass acid etched with concentric circles and wavy bands. Signed on the foot ‘Le Verre Francais and ‘Charder’.
French, Circa 1930. 23cm High.
*’Charder’ was used from the second half of the 1920s by Charles Schneider. It was a contraction of his name.

$1,245     UNE BELLE CHOSE BY CURIUM

Horst P. Horst (German/American, 1906–1999).

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