A very attractive vaseline-glass arts and crafts lampshade of ogee form by John Walsh Walsh in distinctive “Stripe & Dot” pattern with period brass domed and pierced shade carrier. England c.1900

Condition: Reduced bruise to rim at shade carrier end – see photograph

Provenance: stripe & dot pattern, design no.436269

Ht.(as displayed)51cm/20in, Ht.(shade & fit)28/11, Ht.(shade)20/8

Stourbridge Glass, Birmingham

Thomas Webb & Sons, Henry G. Richardson & Sons,  Stevens & Williams, John Walsh Walsh

• The industry was established at the beginning of the 17th century by glass-makers from Lorraine in north-eastern France

• The industry grew and evolved for the next 275 years and glass from Wordsley, Amblecote and Brierley Hill is recognised as amongst the finest in the world

• Birmingham Lighting designers such as Best & Lloyd, Faraday & Sons, Osler & Co, James Hinks & Son and Messenger & Sons employ the Stourbridge factories to produce the glass-ware for their lights.

• Mostly it is impossible to say which firm produced a particular lampshade but some patterns were registered/catalogued and can therefore occasionally be attributed.