A VICTORIAN SILVER-MOUNTED ENGRAVED-GLASS CLARET-JUG
Lot 696

A VICTORIAN SILVER-MOUNTED ENGRAVED-GLASS CLARET-JUG

MARK OF JOHN NEWTON MAPPIN, LONDON, 1889

Closed3 June 2015

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A VICTORIAN SILVER-MOUNTED ENGRAVED-GLASS CLARET-JUG
MARK OF JOHN NEWTON MAPPIN, LONDON, 1889
The ovoid glass body engraved in the rock-crystal style with Renaissance style masks within foliage scrolls and strapwork, the silver-mounted neck and foot cast with fruiting grapevines, the handle cast as a fruiting branch and with grotesque figure at either end, with an associated stopper cast with a figure astride a barrel, London, circa 1860, marked near handle, on foot and stopper
13 5/8 in. (34.7 cm.) high