Silver, Vertu, Coins & Medals - 19 Jan 2016
A Victorian silver-gilt mounted glass claret jug
A Victorian silver-gilt mounted glass claret jug,
by John Figg, London 1873,
slender baluster form, the mount with a raised lip with a Bacchanalian mask, the scroll handle mounted with a female figure passing grapes to a putto, the silver-gilt mounted cork stoppers lacking grape finial, the glass ovoid body with engraved grapevine and mask decoration, on a raised circular foot, with stylised decoration and masks, crack to glass body, in a fitted case, engraved with a monogram, height 41.2cm.