An engraved decanter and stopper
Late 19th Century, probably Thomas Webb and Sons
Oviform, with short neck and loop handle, hollow globular stopper and on three scrolling lion-mask applied feet, engraved in the Japonaiserie style with birds in flight and perched among ivy-entwined trailing branches of blossom
Lot Essay
See Charles Hajdamach, British Glass 1800-1914 (Woodbridge, 1991), p. 172, pl. 148, for a jug with similar lion-mask feet designed by James O'Fallon.