Lot 739
739
A REGENCY OVAL CUT-GLASS BUTTER-DISH AND A COVER
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A REGENCY OVAL CUT-GLASS BUTTER-DISH AND A COVER

CIRCA 1820

Details
A REGENCY OVAL CUT-GLASS BUTTER-DISH AND A COVER
CIRCA 1820
The base with fanned handles, cut with swags on a reeded ground and starcut base, cover chipped
5¼ in. (13.4 cm.) wide
Provenance
Displayed on the bureau plat in the Drawing Room of the Private Apartment of H.R.H. The Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon at Kensington Palace.
Special notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

The Grecian reeded butter-dish, with palm-flowered acrotia and obelisk-finialed dome, is designed in the early l9th century antique fashion. The manufacture and retailing of such cut-glass wares is discussed in A. Moran, Selling Waterford glass in early nineteenth-century Ireland, Journal of the Irish Georgian Society, vol. VI, 2003, pp. 56-89.

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