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A GROUP OF SEVENTEEN ENGLISH AND FRENCH CUT-GLASS SULPHIDE OBJECTS

Lot 114
16.09.2020 10:00UTC +00:00
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$ 5 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 400075
Lot 114 | A GROUP OF SEVENTEEN ENGLISH AND FRENCH CUT-GLASS SULPHIDE OBJECTS
Estimate value
$ 4 000 – 6 000
The collection of cut-glass decanters and scent bottles featuring etched profile busts of mythological figures, past statesmen and presidents, of varying shapes and sizes, including:

An Apsley Pellatt decanter and stopper set with a sulphide of Cupid, 9 in. (22.7 cm.) high

Two Apsley Pellatt bottles and stoppers set with kneeling angels, 71/8 in. (18 cm.) high

Two Apsley Pellatt upright mantle ornaments set with portraits of Milton & Shakespeare, 5 in. (12.6 cm.) high

Two silver-mounted flasks, each set with the muse Melpomene or Terpsichore, the later with interior glass stopper and faintly incised with the initials F.A., 6 in. (15.2 cm.) long, the slightly larger

A silver-mounted Aplsey Pellatt flask with interior stopper, set with a coat-of-arms, 51/8 in. (13 cm.) high

An Apsley Pellatt bottle and a stopper set with a female figure holding a brazier, probably Hygeia, 61/4 in. (15.8 cm.) high

Seven portrait bottles and stoppers, including Baccarat examples with portraits of Napoleon and Eugène de Beauharnais, and Apsley Pellat examples with portraits of George III, William Pitt, Adam Viscount Duncan, an unidentified gentleman and George Washington, the Washington example with a sulphide set in the stopper as well, 6 in. (15.1 cm.) high, the tallest

A small silver-mounted Baccarat scent-bottle with interior stopper, set with a portrait of Voltaire, 31/8 in. (7.8 cm.) high

Together with two silver-mounted Baccarat cut-glass scent bottles and stoppers with central enameled gold foil inclusions of either a carnation or the Legion of Honor, 33/8 in. (8.5 cm.) long, the slightly larger
91/4 in. (23.5 cm.) high, the tallest
Medium:Glass
Address of auction CHRISTIE'S
8 King Street, St. James's
SW1Y 6QT London
United Kingdom
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01.09.2020 – 16.09.2020
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