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THE PROPERTY OF A EUROPEAN COLLECTOR
A VICTORIAN SILVER-GILT MOUNTED FROSTED GLASS WINE JUG
MARK OF JOHN MORTIMER AND JOHN SAMUEL HUNT, LONDON, 1841
Details
A VICTORIAN SILVER-GILT MOUNTED FROSTED GLASS WINE JUG
MARK OF JOHN MORTIMER AND JOHN SAMUEL HUNT, LONDON, 1841
Vase shaped and on circular foot, with fruiting grape-vine mounts, handle and hinged cover, engraved on foot rim with inscription, marked on cover, finial, nut, handle, collar mount, body mount and foot, stamped '532 MORTIMER & HUNT ', on detachable brass-mounted plexiglass plinth
13 ¾ in. (35 cm.) high
The inscription reads 'G. D. Nerousto [sic.] to G. Psycha Esqre.'
MARK OF JOHN MORTIMER AND JOHN SAMUEL HUNT, LONDON, 1841
Vase shaped and on circular foot, with fruiting grape-vine mounts, handle and hinged cover, engraved on foot rim with inscription, marked on cover, finial, nut, handle, collar mount, body mount and foot, stamped '532 MORTIMER & HUNT ', on detachable brass-mounted plexiglass plinth
13 ¾ in. (35 cm.) high
The inscription reads 'G. D. Nerousto [sic.] to G. Psycha Esqre.'
Provenance
Given to George Panteleon Psycha [Psicha] (1836-1889), a Smyrna born Greek cotton merchant who was a partner in Ralli and Psicha, Liverpool, or George Zorzi Psicha (1833-1898), an Amsterdam born Greek general merchant based in Liverpool, by George Demetrius Neroutsos (1819-1876), a Greek born merchant of Woodlands, Bowdon, Cheshire, who traded in Manchester, Trieste and Cario.