Att. to Stevens & Williams Ltd., pair of vases, Brierly Hill, England, 1870s-80s
Entry/Object ID
439
Description
These vases have distinctive decoration in the form of applied tendrils with leaves and flowers. Such vases and related glass wares are often attributed to the longstanding English glasshouse of Stevens and Williams. Probably imported into Portsmouth in the late nineteenth century and used here, these vases represent the exuberance of the so-called Aesthetic Movement, when art for art's sake was popular.
Pair of ornate blown-glass vases, white with bright pink inside and multi-colored raised and applied flowers on outside.
