£90
John Ford, Holyrood Flint Glassworks, Edinburgh, an Aesthetic Movement etched and engraved glass whisky jug, circa 1870, spherical form with cylindrical neck and angled strap handle, etched with bands of lens cut beads between Neoclassical tulip garland to the neck and shoulder, on four scrolled horn feet with moulded lions mast prunts, the body engraved with the crest and motto of the Glover family of Scotland, 13.5cm high Note: although there is a jug of the same form and structural design as this illustrated in Hajdamach, C, 1992, British Glass 1800-1914, p.172, fig.148, described as designed by James O'Fallon at Thomas Webb and Sons, there are a number of other examples which have sold at Bonhams Edinburgh, including this exact jug, described as being by Holyrood Glassworks. Similarly the Edinburgh Museum has an example of a beaker with the same feet and lions mask prunts, by Holyrood Glass Works. A pair of decanters of the same form with the same Neoclassical banding sold in August 2024 at Lyon and Turnbull, also catalogued as Holyrood Glassworks.
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