细节
A silver-mounted lignum vitae cruet-stand containing five silver-mounted opaque-white glass bottles
Circa 1760-65, perhaps London, the central silver carrying-handle with lion rampant and maker's mark
Two mallet-shaped bottles named for 'Oil' and three baluster bottles named for 'Sugar', 'Pepper' and 'Mustard' within puce scroll cartouches above an enamelled loose bouquet including roses and a striped tulip, the reverses with honeysuckle and scattered flowersprays, contained in the revolving lignum-vitae lobed stand with a central turned carrying-handle, on a domed circular foot (damage to silver cover of pepper-pot and the cover of one oil-bottle)
The bottles from 5 5/8 in. (14.3 cm.) to 7¾ in. (18.8 cm.) high overall, the stand 11¾ in. (30 cm.) high overall (5)
来源
Bought from Delomosne & Son Ltd., Chippenham, February 1983.
展览
International Art Treasures Exhibition, Assembly Rooms, Bath, 1973, Exhibition no. 443.
Gilding the Lily, Rare Forms of Decoration on English Glass of the Later 18th Century, Delomosne and Son Ltd., July 1978, no. 22.
注意事项
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