Crowning Glory

1770-1840
Height: 5.49 cm
Mouth/lip: 0.65/1.12 cm
Stopper: pearl; coral collar

Provenance:
Robert Hall (1993)
Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd

Published:
Kleiner 1995, no. 132
Treasury 5, no.775

Exhibited:
British Museum, London, June-October 1995
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, July-November 1997

 

Opaque brown glass streaked with darker brown and cinnabar-red; with a slightly concave lip and recessed, slightly convex foot surrounded by a protruding rounded foot rim; the narrow sides carved with mask-and-ring handles.

Alexander Whittaker