Georgian Irish Glass Standing Bowl c1825 – SOLD

Description

A stunning Georgian Irish glass standing bowl which dates to around 1820. It has pillar flute cutting around the rim with shallow diamond cutting below. It stands on on a utilitarian baluster stem with a slice cut diamond shaped foot .that is very charachteristic of Irish glass. with a star cut base. There is clearly a strong classical influence on the design.

This boat-shaped bowl is of a type usually attributed to either Dublin or Cork glasshouses such as Charles Mulvaney and Richard Williams and Co or the Waterloo glass house from Cork. An almost identical example is displayed at the Royal Museum Scotland. Such bowls were luxury items. with glass excise duties being enforced in England such heavy items were produced and exported from Ireland following the free trade agreement. These were for the dining tables of the very well heeled and there are further similar examples displayed in the collection of the Marquis of Bute and Apsley house home of the Duke of Wellington.

A very nice example. measuring 6 ½ inches tall; and 6 3/.4 inches long.

It has small chips to the corners of the foot and a few small pin pricks on the rim but is is on balance in very good condition and is a fine example.