Stourbridge Cameo Glass Scent Bottle with Silver Mounting

• Foliate - Decorated with leaves or leaf-like forms.
• Stourbridge - Stourbridge in Worcestershire was an important glass-making centre from the 17th century, but production declined from 1745 with the introduction of the Glass Excise Acts which raised the price of raw materials for the English glass makers. The glass tax was abolished in 1845,
  
  enabling the factories to compete with the long-established glassworks of Bohemia, many of the products of which were copied by the English manufacturers. Products included vases, scent-bottles, candle-sticks, plates, drinking vessels, and paper-weights, as well as large exotic one-offs reflecting the interest in the past, and prestige pieces, such as cameo glass. Manufacturers based in Stourbridge included Thomas Webb & Sons, Stevens & Williams and H. G. Richardson & Sons.
• Attributed - A cataloguing term where the item in the opinion of the cataloguers, is a of the period of the artist, craftsman or designer, and which probably in whole or part is the work of that person.

This item has been included into following indexes:

• perfume / scent bottles, maker or location - Webb, Thomas & Sons (England) 26
• perfume / scent bottles, material
  • cameo glass 36
  • silver mounted or topped 348
• perfume / scent bottles, period - Victorian 480