Object Detail
Description
glass bottle, mallet form, club-shaped, decanter and stopper. Cobalt blue glass with gilt inscription in panel. "Brandy" and gilt lines, "B" on lozenge shaped stopper. hand-blown in traditional, Bristol, cobalt blue, this piece features hand painted gilt trompe l'oeil decoration on the body and lozenge stopper. This decanter is in a mallet form and marked Brandy.
Bristol blue glass colour is derived from the use of cobalt oxide and became popularised in the late eighteenth century when William Cooksworthy acquired a stock of colbalt from a mine in Saxony and the style remained popular into the nineteenth century.
Bristol blue glass colour is derived from the use of cobalt oxide and became popularised in the late eighteenth century when William Cooksworthy acquired a stock of colbalt from a mine in Saxony and the style remained popular into the nineteenth century.
Maker and role
glassworks: unknown
Production place
Bristol, England
Production date
circa 1800
Media description
Bristol g;ass
Measurements
220 x 70 x 30
Inscriptions
Cobalt blue glass with gilt inscription in panel. "BRandY" and gilt lines, "B" on lozenge shaped stopper.
Credit line
Foundation Collection, 1989
Project credit line
This digital record has been made available on TJC Collection Online through a significant donation from the OPENING DOORS fund, the generous support of The Friends of The Johnston Collection, and Digitisation Champion Christine Bell
Accession number
A0187
TJC reference number
210
