A MARKED IRISH 'UNION' DECANTER AND STOPPER MADE FOR MARY CARTER & SON, of club shape and inscribed THE LAND WE LIVE IN on a ribbon cartouche above the initials M P within a circular sunray cartouche flanked by flowers, the reverse with a shamrock-spray flanked by sprays of rose and thistle, the lower part moulded with narrow flutes and with two annulated collars to the neck, with moulded bull's eye stopper, the base with faintly moulded 'MARY CARTER & SON DUBLIN' mark, circa 1800

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A MARKED IRISH 'UNION' DECANTER AND STOPPER MADE FOR MARY CARTER & SON, of club shape and inscribed THE LAND WE LIVE IN on a ribbon cartouche above the initials M P within a circular sunray cartouche flanked by flowers, the reverse with a shamrock-spray flanked by sprays of rose and thistle, the lower part moulded with narrow flutes and with two annulated collars to the neck, with moulded bull's eye stopper, the base with faintly moulded 'MARY CARTER & SON DUBLIN' mark, circa 1800
27cm. high

Lot Essay

Mary Carter & Son of 80 Grafton Street, Dublin, circa 1800, are believe to have been retailers only. Although listed in Dublin Directories, no advertisements for the firm are known. The only other recorded marked piece is the double-lipped wine-glass cooler in the National Museum of Ireland, see Phelps Warren, op. cit., pl. 23

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