Exhibit Antiques has dated this piece to the Victorian era.
A superb and very rare example of a Stevens & Williams glass claret jug dating to c1880.
Red applied trailing to the neck with a crimped clear base. Angular applied handle and conical body.
Origin & Date
England, c1880
Condition
Excellent, no chips or cracks, clean and clear. The trailing is all intact.
Dimensions
Height: 25cm
Diameter: 12.5cm
Comments
A pristine example of Victorian machine threading. Applied trailing and coils of molten glass have been used as a decorative technique for centuries, the process was uneven and required extreme precision from the glassblower. In 1876, William James Hodgetts of the glassmaking firm Hodgetts Richardson & Sons took out a patent that employed the use of an apparatus to apply the threading. This patent should have provided some protections however it wasn’t long before most of the glasshouses in the Stourbridge area (one of the major glassmaking hubs of England) had adopted the technique, most famously Stevens and Williams used it to great effect as seen here.
Exhibit Antiques has dated this piece to the Victorian era.
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Rare 19th Century Glass Claret Jug C1880 by Stevens & Williams
