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This is a Bristol blue urn shape cruet with a facet cut foot, shoulders, and pouring lip. It is gilded with repeating and geometric patterns on the foot, shoulder and pouring lip and the body is gilded sprigs of flowers detailed with scrafito work. This is a Made circa.1760-70.

I believe this is a James Giles Bristol blue cruet, the top gilder of glass in England at the time. James Giles [1718-80] is best-known as a decorator of Worcester porcelain. However, surviving documentation proves that around a fifth of his workshop’s output was in gilded and enamelled glass of the highest quality. Other than in known sets, no two pieces of James Giles work have been found to be the same and it is thought he produced a new design for every commission. James Giles bought his glass from the Whitefriars Glasshouse. This was before James Powell took it over 1834.

Reference: The Decanter, Andy McConnell, page 143. Note the similarities in motifs and decoration treatment with the two urn shaped decanters in the top right hand corner.

Reference: The Decanter Ancient to Modern, Andy McConnell, page 117

Reference: Glass, Geoffrey Wills, page 37

Height: 4.75 inches

Width: 2.5 inches

This is a Georgian ellipse shaped cruet bottle with vertical moulded ribs to the body, with shallow notches cut into them. It has a square lemon-squeezer foot and pouring lip. The stopper is tear drop shaped and cut to a point. Made circa. 1780.

These free standing cruet bottles must have been reasonably common during the period they were made as although they are old they are not dfficult to find at a price.

Reference: The Decanter Ancient to Modern, Andy McConnell, page 333

Height: 7 inches

Width: 2 inches

This is a Georgian ellipse shaped cruet bottle with vertical moulded ribs to the body, with shallow notches cut into them. It has a square lemon-squeezer foot and pouring lip. The stopper is tear drop shaped and cut to a point. Made circa. 1780.

These free standing cruet bottles must have been reasonably common during the period they were made as although they are old they are not dfficult to find at a price.

Reference: The Decanter Ancient to Modern, Andy McConnell, page 333

Reference: The Glass Collector - A Guide to Old English Glass, Maciver Perceval, page 312

Reference: The Arthur Negus Guide to British Glass, John Brooks, page 97

Height: 7 inches

Width: 2 inches

This is a Georgian ellipse shaped cruet bottle with vertical moulded ribs to the body, with shallow notches cut into them. It has a square lemon-squeezer foot and pouring lip. The stopper is tear drop shaped and cut to a point. Made circa. 1780.

These free standing cruet bottles must have been reasonably common during the period they were made as although they are old they are not dfficult to find at a price.

Reference: The Decanter Ancient to Modern, Andy McConnell, page 333

Height: 7 inches

Width: 2 inches

This is a lemon squeeze footed baluster shaped Irish Georgian cruet, with double bands of fish scale cutting near the top and bottom of the body and a single band of wheat husk cutting around the middle. The shaker top is made of copper with a small amount of its Sheffield plate still showing. This is a Made circa.1790.

I believe this to be an early Irish piece as the fish scale and wheat husk cutting combination is a classic Irish style of the period. Heat rolling thin sheets of silver onto copper and thereby fusing them is how silver plate, then called Sheffield plate, was made before electro plating was invented. The top is made with some precision as just pushing it on holds it in place and somehow this has carried on working for a couple of hundred years without wearing out. It's a really nice elegant little piece.

Reference: The Glass Collector - A Guide to Old English Glass, Maciver Perceval, page 312

Reference: The Arthur Negus Guide to British Glass, John Brooks, page 97

Height: 4.75 inches

Width: 2 inches

This is a stemmed and footed baluster shaped Georgian cruet, with vertical panel moulding and two sets of double cut bands around the body. The shaker top is silver with undiscernable marks. This is a Made circa.1790.

I believe this is supposed to be barrel like with the patterning resembling planks and staves. As with the cruet above the cutting is really tentative and difficult to pick out in the photo. I don't believe the top is original as it sits a little high, but it's what it came with, and my chances of finding one that fits better must be close to zero.

Reference: The Glass Collector - A Guide to Old English Glass, Maciver Perceval, page 312

Height: 5 inches

Width: 2 inches

This is an urn shaped Regency cruet bottle with Knop stem, step cutting to the lower body, followed by a band of hobnail cutting to the middle and steps cut to the shoulders and a faceted neck ring. It has a radially cut mushroom stopper. Made circa. 1820-30.

This is a high quality cruet bottle that would have come from a silver cruet stand.

Reference: The Decanter Ancient to Modern, Andy McConnell, page 334

Height: 4.75 inches

Width: 2.5 inches