An early decanter-jug and cover

CIRCA 1685

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An early decanter-jug and cover
Circa 1685
Of straight-sided slightly flared shouldered form with plain applied trail to the footrim, the lower part moulded with vertical gadroons beneath a trailed triple-ply chain band, the slender neck rising from a flammiform collar and with pinched spout, the ribbed loop handle with thumb-rest and scrolling terminal, the shaped domed gadrooned cover with knob finial (extended crack running around base and up to terminal of handle, footrim chip, the cover with chips to rim of shank)
11½in. (29.2cm.) high

Lot Essay

Cf. W.A. Thorpe, A History of English and Irish Glass (1969), pl. XX, nos. 1 and 2; Francis Buckley, A History of Old English Glass, pl. IV and Ward Lloyd, Investing in Georgian Glass, p. 16. Another example, without a cover, from the Henry Brown Collection, was sold at Sotheby's, 29 July 1947, lot 98. See also the Circle of Glass Collectors Commemorative Exhibition, 1962, Victoria and Albert Museum, no. 120.

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