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Primary Description:
Cobalt blue glass, flared rim, two handles with v-shaped decoration, slightly conical body with cameo scene.
Exhibitions (2)

Cameo Glass: Masterpieces from 2000 Years of Glassmaking
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1982-05-01 through 1982-10-31
Cameo glass, one of the most costly and difficult decorating techniques since first century B.C., is documented and illustrated in this catalog. Included are examples from Rome, Islam, and China, as well as English 19th-century masterpieces by John Northwood and George Woodall among others.
For the purposes of this catalog, the term “cameo glass” is used to refer to cased glass objects with two or more differently colored layers. The outer layer is usually an opaque or opalescent white, and the outer layer or layers have been carved in to leave the decoration standing in relief against a body of contrasting color. Shading is produced by thinning down the carved layer; highlights are created where the glass is left thickest.
Both this catalog, and the exhibition for which it was created, documents the 2000-year cameo glass tradition.

Nineteenth Century English Cameo Glass from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Christian Revi
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1963 through 1963
Publications (38)
The Black Country: A History in 100 Objects (2019)
pp. 92-93;
Gods in the western Midlands: the immortal achievements of Wedgwood, Woodall & Webb (2018)
pp. 11, 57;
In Our Time: A celebration of Stourbridge glass, the 2012 Portland Vase project and GlassCuts, the voice of the British Glass Foundation (2013)
illustrated, p. 6 (top row, center);
BIB# 140889
The 2012 Portland Vase Project: Recreation of a Masterpiece (2012)
illustrated, p. 39, top; p. 43, bottom;
BIB# 131722
The Yearning for Venetian Glass: Beauty that Traversed Oceans and Time (2011)
illustrated, p. 20, fig.6;
Jewels on the Cut: an exploration of the Stourbridge Canal and the local glass industry (2010)
illustrated, pp. 28-30;
BIB# 121293
Exhibition: Reflecting Antiquity (2008-02-01)
illustrated
Layers of Wonder: Majestic and Marvelous Cameo Glass (2003-05)
illustrated, p. 55;
Roman Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass, Volume Three (2003)
illustrated, pp. 86-88, # 1032;
BIB# 58895
Mini-Exhibition Presents Copies of the Most Famous Piece of Glass in the World (2003)
illustrated, p. 7;
BIB# AI56896
Legends in Glass: Thomas and George Woodall and the Art of Cameo Glass (2000)
illustrated, p. 3;
BIB# 75070
Treasures from The Corning Museum of Glass: Checklist of the Exhibition (1999)
illustrated, p. 17;
BIB# 63967
Royal Brierly Crystal (1998/2)
illustrated, p. 46, #4;
English Cameo Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (1994)
illustrated, pp. 16, 18, 60, fig. 12;
BIB# 35913
The History of the Portland Vase (1990)
illustrated, Cover, frontispiece; pp. 62-84;
Cameo Glass: Masterpieces from 2000 Years of Glassmaking (1982)
illustrated, pp. 58-59, 108, #35;
BIB# 30609
The Glass Replicas of the Portland Vase (1982)
illustrated, pp. 49-56, esp. p. 52-53;
John Northwood and English Cameo Glass (1981)
pp. 50-55, ill. p. 50;
English Nineteenth Century Cameo Glass, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Christian Revi: a special exhibition (1963)
illustrated, p. 10, fig. 4;
BIB# 27745
Stourbridge County Express (1913-03-01)