Below are some examples and price guides to d’Argental cameo glass items including a French art glass vase and a cameo glass oil lamp.

D’Argental Signature Mark

D’Argental French Cameo Art Glass Vase, purple floral of soft yellow satin, 6″ tall, signed.

Sold for US$400 at Richard D. Hatch & Associates in 2023

A D’Argental Cameo Glass Scent Bottle
Early 20th Century
signed to body.
Height 10 inches.

Sold for US$250 at Hindman in 2023

FRENCH RED CAMEO GLASS LAMP

Red cameo glass decorated with red hibiscus flowers, signed D’Argental to base with custom silk and beadwork shade. French, circa 1920s. H. 16″ W. 9 1/2″ D. 9 1/2″ (40.6 x 24.1 x 24.1 cm)

Sold for CA$400 at A.H. Wilkens Auctions & Appraisals in 2023

A D’Argental cameo glass oil lamp
early 20th century
Decorated with fuchias, signed in the cameo D’Argental, the gilt metal mount stamped Lampe Berger.
height overall 6 3/4in (17.2cm)

Sold for US$400 at Andrew Jones Auctions in 2022

D’Argental Cameo Glass Table Lamp

French D’Argental cameo glass vase form lamp with lotus flowers designed. and signed on body of stand, 23″H x 13 1/4″W

Sold for US$3,500 at The Popular Auction in 2022

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Information on Giovanni Battasta Cerbara and his sons. Giovanni Battasta Cerbara and his sons Giuseppe (1770-1856) and Niccolo (1793-1869) were celebrated Roman medallists and gem engravers of the 18th and 19th centuries. In 1822 Giuseppe became General Engraver to the Papal Mint and with Girometti produced the papal medals biannually. Reference: Bonham’s

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Giovanni Antonio Santarelli was a sculptor / medallist and gem engraver. He was also known as Santarelli, Giovanni Antonio.

Giovanni Antonio Santarelli (1769-1826), a highly skilled Italian gem engraver and medallist, worked as engraver to Mints of Milan and Parma, also becoming a professor at the Academy in Florence where he lived most of the latter part of his life. Santarelli is reported to have worked with the Pichlers, another well-known family of Italian gem engravers. Reference: Sotheby’s.

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Information on Tiffany Studios including a gallery of glass items made by the firm and makers mark. Louis Comfort Tiffany was an artist and designer famed for his Art Nouveau glass. Trained as a painter before turning to interior decoration in 1879. In 1892 he formed the Tiffany Glass & Decorating Company, renamed Tiffany Studios in 1902 and remaining in operation till 1938. Tiffany Studios produced the bronzework and the celebrated lamps with stained glass shades. His first glass factory, for vessel glass as opposed to stained glass, was formed in 1893 at Corona, Long Island as the Stourbridge Glass Company; it was renamed Tiffany Furnaces in 1902 and continued to operate until 1928.  He was the son of Charles Lewis Tiffany, founder of the New York silver and jewellery firm Tiffany & Co. Reference: The British Museum

Tiffany Studios Makers Mark

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Information on Thomas Webb & Sons including a gallery of glass items made by the firm and makers mark. Thomas Webb & Sons was an English glass company, founded in 1837 by Thomas Webb (1804-1869) near Stourbridge, England. The name T. Webb & Co. was adopted in 1842, and later became Thomas Webb & Sons. Webb operated the Platts glasshouse from 1837 to 1856 and then the Dennis glassworks from 1855 to 1990.

The company, known originally as the “Crystal King of England,” was noted for the high quality of its Cameo glass. Cameo glass is created by a process of etching and carving through a layer of opaque white glass, leaving a white relief design on a darker colored glass body. Some pieces used two layers of etched glass to create a three-color Cameo glass product. In the 1870s John Northwood produced the first pieces, inspired by the Portland Vase. George Woodall would produce the most distinguished Webb Cameo work towards the end of the 19th century.

The finest and most valuable pieces were signed with “GEM CAMEO” included in the mark – Roman cameo glass was itself an imitation of the luxury art form of the cameo engraved gem. Reference: Wikipedia

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Information on The House of Faberge and gallery of items including cameos made by the firm. The House of Fabergé is a jewellery firm founded in 1842 in St. Petersburg, Imperial Russia, by Gustav Faberge, using the accented name “Fabergé”. Gustav was followed by his sons Peter Carl Fabergé and Agathon Fabergé Sr. and grand sons, until the firm was nationalised by the Bolsheviks in 1918. The firm has been famous for designing elaborate jewel-encrusted Fabergé eggs for the Russian Tsars and a range of other work of high quality and intricate details. In 1924, Peter Carl’s son’s Alexander Fabergé and Eugène Fabergé opened Fabergé & Cie in Paris, making similar jewellery items, but adding the city to their rival firm’s trademark as “FABERGÉ, PARIS”. In 1937, the rights to the brand name “Fabergé” was sold to for the marketing of perfume to Samuel Rubin. It was then re-sold in 1964 to cosmetics company Rayette Inc., which changed its name to Rayette-Fabergé Inc. As the name was resold more times, Fabergé companies (such as Fabergé Inc.) launched clothing lines, the cologne Brut (which became the best-selling cologne at the time), the perfume Babe, hair products, and undertook film production. The brand name changed hands a few more times and jewelry was eventually added back to the products under the name. Next to branded Fabergé products the world market has been continuously supplied with so called Fauxbergé items and ‘Fabergé style’ products. Today the brand is solely used for jewelry and gem stones.

In 1885, Tsar Alexander III commissioned the House of Fabergé to make an Easter egg as a gift for his wife, the Empress Maria Fedorovna. Its “shell” is enamelled on gold to represent a normal hen’s egg. This pulls apart to reveal a gold yolk, which in turn opens to produce a gold chicken that also opens to reveal a replica of the Imperial Crown from which a miniature ruby egg was suspended. Although the Crown and the miniature egg have been lost, the rest of the Hen Egg as it is known is now in the collection of Victor Vekselberg.

The tradition of the Tsar giving his Empress a surprise Easter egg by Carl Fabergé continued. From 1887, it appears that Carl Fabergé was given complete freedom as to the design of the Imperial Easter eggs as they became more elaborate. According to the Fabergé Family tradition, not even the Tsar knew what egg form they would take: the only stipulation was that each one should contain a surprise. The House of Fabergé completed 50 Imperial eggs for Alexander III to present to his Empress and for Nicholas II to present to his mother, the Dowager Empress Maria Fedorovna and his wife the Empress Alexandra Fedorovna.[3] Of these, 43 are known to have survived.

Amongst Fabergé’s more popular creations were the miniature hardstone carvings of people, animals and flowers carved from semi-precious or hardstones and embellished with precious metals and stones. The most common animal carvings were elephants and pigs but included custom made miniatures of pets of the British Royal family and other notables. The flower sculptures were complete figural tableaus, which included small vases in which carved flowers were permanently set, the vase and “water” were done in clear rock crystal (quartz) and the flowers in various hardstones and enamel. The figures were typically only 25–75 mm long or wide, with some larger and more rare figurines reaching 140–200 mm tall, and were collected throughout the world; the British Royal family has over 250 items in the Royal Collection, including pieces made by Michael Perkhin and Henrik Wigström. Other important Fabergé miniature collectors were Marjorie Merriweather Post, her niece Barbara Hutton and even Fabergé’s competitor Cartier, who in 1910 purchased a pink jade pig and a carnelian (agate) fox with cabochon ruby eyes set in gold. Reference: Wikipedia

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Michael Evlampievich Perkhin (aka Michael Perchin) (1860-1903) was born in Okulovskaya in Olonets Governorate (now Republic of Karelia) and died in St. Petersburg. He was one of the most important Fabergé workmasters along with Henrik Wigström. Perchin became the leading workmaster in the House of Fabergé in 1886 and supervised production of the eggs until his death in 1903. The eggs he was responsible for were marked with his initials.

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The Muller family originally came from Alsace. Some members of the family worked together with Émile Gallé before starting their own business. Reference: Wikipedia

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Legras & Cie was established by Auguste Jean-Francois Legras in about 1864. By the end of the century it had specialised in acid-etched and enamelled cameo glass inspired by that made by Émile Gallé, France’s leading maker of decorative glass in the fashionable Art Nouveau style. During the first decade of the 1900s Legras & Cie became a major exponent of the École de Nancy (School of Nancy) led by Gallé. The firm produced a wide variety of commercial art-glass, both cameo and painted in enamels, but also made some large high-quality pieces for international exhibitions – only a few of these more elaborate examples have survived. Reference: Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences

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