An early 'crisselled' decanter-jug

CIRCA 1674, PROBABLY RAVENSCROFT

Details

An early 'crisselled' decanter-jug
Circa 1674, probably Ravenscroft
The oviform body moulded with 'nipt diamond waies' and applied with vertical bands of pincered ornament, the vertically ribbed neck with cupped rim and spout and applied with a vermicular collar at its base, with a scroll handle and applied gadrooned footrim (two cracks to shoulder beneath handle terminal, slight chipping to pincered ornament)
8½in. (21.5cm.) high

Literature

Commemorative Exhibition 1936-1962, Exhibition Catalogue, pl. VA 3.
Exhibition of English Glass 1968, Exhibition Catalogue, no. 30.

Exhibited

Circle of Glass Collectors, Commemorative Exhibition, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1962, no. 117.
Exhibition of English Glass, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1968, no. 30.

Lot Essay

For comparable decanter-jugs see W.A. Thorpe, A History of English and Irish Glass (1969), pl. IX, Barrington-Haynes Glass Through The Ages, fig. 54c, and Barrington-Haynes, 'Some Ravenscroft Jugs', The Connoisseur, December 1941. A similar example was sold at Sotheby's, 16th October 1989, lot 9.

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