A pair of blue flat-cut helmet-shaped ewers
A pair of blue flat-cut helmet-shaped ewers

CIRCA 1765

Details
A pair of blue flat-cut helmet-shaped ewers
Circa 1765
The broadly fluted bodies flat-cut with a band of large diamonds and geometric ornament beneath bevelled shaped rims, applied with scroll handles and supported on rudimentary knop stems above faceted domed feet with shaped rims (minor chips to rims and footrims)
9.7/8 in. (25 cm.) high (2)
Provenance
Lord Suffield, Gunton Park.
The Trustees of the Gunton Park Estate, Gunton Park, Hanworth, Norfolk, sale Irelands, 16 September 1980.
Literature
Martin Mortimer, 'Thomas Betts, the London Glass-Cutter', Antique Collecting, Vol. 24, No. 2, June 1989, p. 50, col. pl. 1
Delomosne & Son Ltd., Catalogue, 1991, no. 25.

Lot Essay

It has been suggested that the cutting of this rare pair of ewers may perhaps be attributed to Thomas Betts, the prominent London glass-cutter and merchant, see Martin Mortimer, 'Thomas Betts, the London Glass-Cutter', op. cit.(1989), pp 46 - 51. Thomas Betts died in January 1765, and the probate Inventory subsequently drawn up by six appraisers including Colebron Hancock, Glass Manufacturer of Charing Cross who had been apprenticed to Betts in 1752, includes an entry amongst the glass stored in the "Ware Room" at the Lewisham workshop for "Two large Blue Ewers unfinished". For a detailed discussion on the probate Inventory see Alexander Werner, 'Thomas Betts - an Eighteenth Century Glasscutter', The Journal of the Glass Association, Vol. 1, 1985, pp. 1-6.

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