Cruet set
Category
Metalwork
Date
1800 - 1830
Materials
Glass, Sheffield plate
Measurements
200 mm (Length)
Place of origin
Sheffield
Order this imageCollection
A La Ronde, Devon
NT 1313568
Summary
Cruet set - Sheffield plate stand and bottles. Stand crescent shaped with pierced gallery, 3 spherical feet. Stand to hold 5 pots (broken) Engraved monogram JMP (Jane and Mary Parminter). 4 original cut-glass bottles, 1 stopper and one related pot. Early 19th C
Provenance
Original Parminter item that was removed by Stella Tudor upon her marriage in 1880; taken with her to the vicarages of Turkdean then East Garston and, after her death, with her husband to Reading. Upon his death this item was recorded in both the 1925 and the 1930 Probate and Valuation Inventory and was then passed to his daughters Margaret and Stella Tudor who returned it to A La Ronde upon Margaret’s purchase of the property in 1930. It was purchased from Mrs Tudor Perkins in 1991.