Bottle stopper
Category
Glass
Date
1830
Materials
Glass
Place of origin
Bohemia
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Vyne Estate, Hampshire
NT 718451.2
Summary
Stopper for bottle, glass with decoration engraved through a mauve stain. Wide based bottle on low foot, cut into vertical facets. Everted lip and ring round neck. Thistle shaped stopper. The facets of the bottle are alternately plain and covered with mauve stain. On the latter, a decoration of rococo cartouches and scrolls is engraved down to the colourless ground. Neck badly broken. Bohemian, about 1830.