Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2013.

Vase with Cupid

Designer Joseph Locke (American, 1846-1835)

ManufacturerProbably Hodgetts, Richardson and Son (English, 1871-1882)

CultureEnglish

Dateca. 1877-1878

MediumBlown cased glass, etched, cameo-carved

DimensionsOverall: 7 5/8 in. (19.4 cm)

InscribedUnsigned

Credit LinePurchase, with funds from Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. Endowment for Glass

Object number2002.2

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 116-5, Case 35

Label TextJoseph Locke English (1846-1936) Hodgetts, Richardson & Son Stourbridge, England Vase with Cupid, ca. 1877-78 Blown cased glass, etched, cameo-carved Museum purchase, Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. Endowment Fund 2002.2 A visitor to the World's Fair of 1878 would have immediately seen that the image of Cupid on this vase is borrowed from the image of Cupid on The Portland Vase since Locke's copy of that vase was also on display at the Fair. An article on Hodgetts, Richardson & Son, also illustrated this vase in the Art Journal in 1878. Approved By: ERLProvenanceLeo Kaplan, Ltd., New York; Purchased by the Chrysler Museum of Art, 2002. Exhibition HistoryParis World's Fair, 1878. "Cameo Performances: Masterpieces of Cameo Glass from the Chrysler Collection," Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA., June 29, 2008 - December 30, 2012. Published ReferencesCharles R. Hajdamach, _British Glass 1800-1914_ (Suffolk, England: Antique Collectors Club Ltd., 1991), 114, pl. 86. This shows the vase on display during the Paris World Fair, 1878. Sotheby's, _British and European glass, including the Rinceaux collection_ (Olympia, London: Sotheby's, 12/18/2001), sale WO1204, lot 202.