Silver & Objects of Vertu - Day 2 - 6th October 2021
Lot 579
A late-Victorian silver-gilt mounted glass claret jug
Estimate £400 - £600
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Description
A late-Victorian silver-gilt mounted glass claret jug,
George Richards Elkington, London 1856,
the mount with masks and trailing vines, with a domed hinged cover with a thumb-piece modelled as a rampant lion holding a shield, with an inscription and later gilded, the later glass body with engraved vine and grape decoration, and with a scroll handle, height 26cm.
Provenance:
Purchased from Scott Cooper Ltd., Cheltenham, 3 October, 1975.