A Thomas Webb and Sons silver-mounted three-layer cameo glass decanter, dated 1887
Of 'Shaft and Globe' shape with a small twig loop handle, overlaid with layers of white and red on a bright yellow ground, delicately carved with trailing vine issuing trumpet flowers and tendrils, a chevron border to the footring, the hinged silver cover finely chased with further flowering clematis and inscribed 'Linnie A McCoon/ June 1. 1887' and connected by a chain, 23.2cm high, American mounts by Gorham, Providence, Rhode Island, marked STERLING
Footnotes:
Provenance
Leo Kaplan Collection
Christie's New York, 5 March 1994, lot 406
With Asprey and Garrard
Private British Collection

Literature
Ray and Lee Grover, English Cameo Glass (1980), p.23, no.C11
Andy McConnell, The Decanter (2004), p.389, pl.543 and (2018), p.321, fig.1

This decanter was presented to Caroline (Linnie) Auguste McCoon on the occasion of her marriage to Frederick W Gunther in New York on 1 June 1887. They lived for a time at 144 West 72nd Street. Another similar decanter is illustrated by Ray and Lee Grover (1980), p.372, no.C14.