jug

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Object Type
Museum number: 2001,0706.1
Description: Jug, blue glass, helmet-shaped, with massive loop handle and domed foot, the body cut with a pattern of shallow diamonds, the rim with deep bevelled curves.
Producer name
Production date: 1760 (circa)
Production place: Workshop in: London (England)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 250 millimetres
Bibliographic references: Mortimer 1987 / English Coloured Glass of the 18th Century, the search for cut examples (p. 36, fig. 2) (one of the pair); Mortimer, 1989 / Thomas Betts, the London glass-cutter (p 50, col pl 1); O'Connell 2003 / London 1753 (n. 3.52)
Location: On display (G46/dc19/sh1)
Condition: Some minor chips
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 2001
Acquisition notes: The jug (one of a pair, the other now in the Corning Museum of Glass) once belonged to Lord Suffield and was sold at Irelands, 16 September 1980 by The Trustees of the Gunton Park Estate, Hanworth, Norfolk. It was with Messrs Delomosne c. 1985-91 (see their Catalogue, 1991, no 25). It was then sold at Christie's, 8 November 1999, lot 329 (one of a pair) for £9,800 to Namara Fine Art.
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: 2001,0706.1

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