AN APSLEY PELLATT CUT-GLASS SULPHIDE FOUR-LIGHT CENTERPIECE

CIRCA 1820

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AN APSLEY PELLATT CUT-GLASS SULPHIDE FOUR-LIGHT CENTERPIECE
Circa 1820
Each arm suspending glass lustres, the diamond-cut vasi-form center enclosing a sulphide of Andromache, above a central ball applied with rosettes, on a conical stem and stepped circular foot
15¼ in. (38.6 cm.) high

Literature

D. Tarshis, Objects of Fantasy: Glass Inclusions of the Nineteenth Century, Santa Cruz, CA, 2001, p. 117, illustration XVI.

Exhibited

P. Jokelson and D. Tarshis, Cameo Incrustation: The Great Sulphide Show, The Corning Museum of Glass, New York, 1988, p. 8, no. 6 (exhibition label).

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Lot Essay

Apsley Pellatt, Memoir on the Origin, Progress and Improvement of Glass Manufacture..., London, 1821, plate F, fig. 12 illustrates a similar example and states that the central vase was intended to hold real or artificial flowers.

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