Silver, Vertu, Coins & Medals - 19th January 2016
Lot 898
A Victorian silver-gilt mounted glass claret jug
Estimate £600 - £800 | Hammer £1400
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Description
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.