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AN IMPORTANT AND POSSIBLY UNIQUE PAIR OF 'THE LAND WE LIVE IN' DECANTERS, cork, c.1800, ascribed...

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AN IMPORTANT AND POSSIBLY UNIQUE PAIR OF 'THE LAND WE LIVE IN' DECANTERS, cork, c.1800, ascribed...
AN IMPORTANT AND POSSIBLY UNIQUE PAIR OF 'THE LAND WE LIVE IN' DECANTERS, cork, c.1800, ascribed to The Cork Glass House (1783-1818), full size with twin milled neck rings and with moulded fluted bases, decorated with novel sprays of Union Flowers within barley heads and with an encircled monogram beneath the banner, flanked by standing birds, with collector's label
each 22.5cms high.
Provenance: W.D. Clark Collection / Churchills 1953 / Frazer Collection, Australia.
Literature: Warren, Irish Glass, 1970, where illustrated and discussed.
For a discussion, see 'Catriona MacLeod, "The Land We Live In," A Toast on Cork Decanters, Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, Vol. LXXXIII No. 237 (1978).
Note: It is suggested that the Monogram I (J) and E.W. may refer to Joseph Walpole (d.1824) and his wife, Elizabeth (Penrose) Dunleavy, in Penrose Glass (National Museum 1989), illustrates a Cork decanter with the Penrose crest demonstrating the close connection between the Waterford and Cork glass industry.
A very similar decanter decorated by the same engraver but with the base impressed for the retailer, Mary Carter & Co., 80 Grafton Street, was sold by HOK Fine Art, 6/6/2000, lot 316 (IR£13,000).
€10000/15000
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