A Large 18thC Olive Glass Gilt Painted Wine Bottle

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A Large 18thC Olive Glass Gilt Painted Wine BottleOrigin: Probably Dutch Period: Mid Late Eighteenth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1770 1790 Width: 14 inches (at maximum) Height: 18 inches The large olive green glass bottle of flattened globular form with a kick up base and hand painted gilt armorial crest to one side and a tavern scene to the other survives from the mid Georgian period. There is some expected wear to the armorial and more so to the tavern scene with some chipping but much of

Period: Early / Mid Twentieth Century

As centre tables go this is of a higher quality than many of the others made in the period

you create burrs and sharp edges on your workpiece that need to be removed

standing with an oversize Mohican head

Width: 16 inches

the whole terminating in a turned knop finial

the wrecked boat in the background and an albatross circling overhead is presented in its gilded wooden frame with inset border and large hoop hanger

Base Diameter: 5 inches

The beautifully carved and polychrome painted soft wood wall mask formed as a cherub or young maiden having a pierced gilt painted scrolling top above a protruding female head bordered with gilt scrolls above further scrollwork surviving from early eighteenth century Europe

but otherwise in quite good

and this evocative image of an opulent candlelit dinner enjoyed by two successful businessman and their glittering wives

encapsulates the history of English furniture and its manufacture

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