Before the Race

Artist George Woodall (British, 1850 - 1925)

Artist Thomas Woodall (English, 1849-1926)

Manufacturer Thomas Webb & Sons (British (Stourbridge, England), 1837 - 1990)

CultureEnglish

Dateca. 1890

MediumBlown, cased, etched, and cameo-carved glass

DimensionsOverall: 12 1/4 in. (31.1 cm)

InscribedAt the center of the bottom is an acid-stamp mark: THOMAS WEBB & SONS GEM CAMEO; and appears to be engraved with W2043

Credit LineMuseum purchase, with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. James E. Summar, Sr. in honor of Mrs. Rebecca W. Hitt and Gary E. Baker, The Chrysler Museum Glass Associates, Leo Kaplan, Ltd., Mr. and Mrs. Richard Barry III, Mrs. Rebecca W. Hitt in honor of Kate Summar, Mr. and Mrs. John S. Shannon, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Waitzer, Mr. and Mrs. David M. Brashear, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Jacobson, Mrs. George M. Kaufman, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred F. Ritter, Jr., Anonymous, The Evelyn & Cameron Munden Foundation, Mr. and Mrs. John O. Wynne, Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Branch, Mrs. Richard C. Burroughs, Mr. and Mrs. Stuart E. Katz, Mrs. Eleanor Marshall, Susan R. O’Neal, and the Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. Glass Purchase Fund

Object number2005.26

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 116-5, Case 36

DescriptionThe vase is in a Chinese shape with a high shouldered ovoid body, broad neck, flaring rim, and slightly domed foot. The glass is blown in two layers with opaque white on a brown or raisin-colored ground. The opaque white layer is acid-etched and cameo carved in relief. A frieze depicting three horses mounted with jockeys warps around approximately two-thirds of the vase. The rim and foot have stylized classical leaf borders that mirror each other (the leaves run in opposite directions). On the lower portion of the vase is repeating pattern consisting of twelve stylized olive (?) branches (each with five leaves and two fruits) that rise from a narrow band at the top of the domed foot; small quatrefoil flowers alternate between the tips of these branches. On the neck, located above the central horse and rider is an asymmetrical flowering branch (in the Japonesque manner); this branch begins at the lower edge of the rim border and the tips of its outermost leaves extend onto the shoulder.

Label TextGeorge Woodall English (1850-1925) Thomas Woodall English (1849-1926) Thomas Webb & Son Stourbridge, England Before the Race, ca. 1890 Blown cased glass, etched, cameo-carved Museum purchase, with funds provided by James and Becky Summar, Sr. in honor of Mrs. Rebecca W. Hitt and Gary E. Baker, The Chrysler Museum Glass Associates, Leo Kaplan, Ltd., Mr. and Mrs. Richard Barry III, Mrs. Rebecca W. Hitt in honor of Kate Summar, Mr. and Mrs. John S. Shannon, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Waitzer, Mr. and Mrs. David M. Brashear, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Jacobson, Mrs. George M. Kaufman, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred F. Ritter, Jr., Anonymous, The Evelyn & Cameron Munden Foundation, Mr. and Mrs. John O. Wynne, Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Branch, Mrs. Richard C. Burroughs, Mr. and Mrs. Stuart E. Katz, Mrs. Eleanor Marshall, Susan R. O'Neal, and the Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. Glass Purchase Fund 2005.26 ProvenanceLeo Kaplan Ltd., January 25, 1978; Private collector, Connecticut, 1982; [Resold] Leo Kaplan Ltd, 1998; Chrysler Museum of Art, Museum purchase, with funds provided by James and Becky Summar, Sr. in honor of Mrs. Rebecca W. Hitt and Gary E. Baker, The Chrysler Museum Glass Associates, Leo Kaplan, Ltd., Mr. and Mrs. Richard Barry III, Mrs. Rebecca W. Hitt in honor of Kate Summar, Mr. and Mrs. John S. Shannon, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Waitzer, Mr. and Mrs. David M. Brashear, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Jacobson, Mrs. George M. Kaufman, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred F. Ritter, Jr., Anonymous, The Evelyn & Cameron Munden Foundation, Mr. and Mrs. John O. Wynne, Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Branch, Mrs. Richard C. Burroughs, Mr. and Mrs. Stuart E. Katz, Mrs. Eleanor Marshall, Susan R. O’Neal, and the Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. Glass Purchase Fund, 2005 Exhibition History"Cameo Glass: Masterpieces fromm 2000 Years of Glassmaking", Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY., May 1 - October 31, 1982. "Cameo Performances: Masterpieces of Cameo Glass from the Chrysler Collection," Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA., June 29, 2008 - December 30, 2012. Published ReferencesRay Grover, _Carved and Decorated European Art Glass_ (Rutlandt: Tuttle Pub., 1970), 49, fig. 36, 38. ISBN: 978-0804807074 Similiar example Ray Grover and Lee Grover, _English Cameo Glass_ (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1988), 66, 109, 310, frg. 105, 106. ISBN: 978-0517538159 Similiar example Sidney M. Goldstein, Leonard S. Rakow, and Juliette K. Rakow, _Cameo Glass: Masterpieces from 2000 Years of Glassmaking_ (New York: The Corning Museum of Glass , 1982), 79, fig. 75, 116. ISBN: 0486243877 Christopher Woodall Perry, _The Cameo Glass of Thomas and George Woodall_ (Somerset, England: Richard Dennis, 2000), 58 ,23, 134. ISBN: 0903685779 Leo Kaplan Ltd., _The Catalogue of Antiques & Fine Art_ (Watertown: Holliday, 2002), Cover, 61. Chrysler Museum of Art Staff, "Collection Grows with Mowbray Arch Puchases, _Chrysler Museum of Art Bulletin_ March/April 2006, 6. Jeff Harrison, _Collecting with Vision: Treasures From the Chrysler Museum of Art_ (London: D. Giles Ltd., 2007), 128, fig. 157. ISBN: 978-0-940744-72-1