"Rock Crystal" Vase
Webb's rock-crystal engraving is cut and polished back to optical clarity. The labour in one of these is measured in weeks.
MakerThomas Webb & Sons
Date1889
OriginStourbridge
MediumGlass
Dimensions30.1 × 18.3 cm (11 13/16 × 7 3/16 in.)
Classvase
RegisterObject
QuantityOne. There is never a second.
€ 163
How this figure was reached
35 priced lots of 70 ended for this name; 32.5–140 GBP, median 55, converted at the ECB rate of 2026-09-21.
This is the market's number, not the dealer's ask — the top of what the name has realised in public. The dealer's own figure replaces it when the object is catalogued.
The public record
Auctionet, 2026-09-21 · 70 ended lots found
priced 35
unsold 12
sell-through 75%
confidence 0.52
basis hammer
in euro € 38–€ 163
Attribution
By
Documented as the maker's own work.
Attributed to
The scholarship points here; the documentation is incomplete.
Circle of
The workshop or immediate following, in the maker's lifetime.
Manner of
The style, by another hand, at any date.
After
A copy of a known work by this maker.
Unattributed
No maker of record. Most of the trade lives here.
This plate
"Rock Crystal" Vase, Art Institute of Chicago, object 157021.
Harry and Maribel G. Blum, Richard T. Crane, Jr., Memorial, and Rosenwald Glass endowments Released as Public Domain (CC0);
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