Silver & Objects of Vertu - 17 Jul 2018
600
By Anthony Elson, a pair of commemorative silver-mounted glass claret jugs,
London 1973, no.19/100,
celebrating Bristol's Royal charter of 1373, tapering circular form, hob-nail cut glass bodies, the mounts with chased domed covers with ship and castle decoration and crown finials, the handles with a portrait of Edward III, with traces of gilding, inscribed 'Bristol 600 1373-1973', and with the Bristol town mark, height 32cm. (2)