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Pair of claret jugs

Pair of claret jugs
 (c. 1830)

Medium
glass (wheel-cut)
Measurements
(a-b) 25.1 × 14.9 × 11.9 cm (overall)
(c-d) 25.2 × 14.7 × 12.1 cm (overall)
Accession Number
1995.389.a-d
Department
International Decorative Arts
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Presented through The Art Foundation of Victoria by Mr James Cousins and Mrs Elizabeth Cousins, Members, 1995
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited
Gallery location
Not on display
Physical description
Two claret jugs, each with a swan's neck handle and mushroom stopper; elaborately cut throughout, with prism cutting at the neck and shoulder, the body cut with a band of 'strawberry' diamonds above a panel of ovoid lozenges, also cut with two leaf-shaped motifs beneath the handle, the base cut with a star-pattern; the stopper with radiating sections of diamond-cutting.