Lot 394
COLLECTION OF GLASS AND CUT GLASS
19TH / 20TH CENTURY
Auction: Day Two: 20 May 2021 | From 11:00
Description
comprising eight custard cups, two canoe-shaped salts on a square foot, two batwing-shaped salts on an oval foot, a round cup-shaped salt with a scalloped rim, and a prism cut salt, a pair of sweet meat jars with strawberry cut diamonds on a square section foot, a sweet meat jar with strawberry cut diamonds and engraved with the initials GJE, with a further pair of sweet meat dishes, the scalloped rim with fan cutting and the body cut with diamonds, raised on a circular lobed foot
Dimensions
custard cups 8.5cm-9cm high, tallest sweet meat dishes 14cm high
Provenance
Provenance: Collection of Dr. John A. Packer, Edinburgh
Footnote
there are some typical nibbles and signs of use throughout. custards - no chips or cracks; slight variation in height. batwing salts - 20th century; numerous rim chips. canoe salts - one is ok; the other has a couple of tiny chips/nibbles to the edges. prisim salt - one larger rim chip and a few nibbles. round salt - some chips to base rim; scalloped rim possibly ground. pair of sweet meats with scalloped rim - rim chips to both; one with a larger foot rim chip. engraved glass - a small shallow foot rim chip. pair of sweet meats on a square foot - one has numerous chips to the rim.