An impressive pair of engraved magnum ale or beer decanters and stoppers, circa 1770Of generous 'sugarloaf' shape, decorated to both sides with tied sprays of hops and barley, with lobed disc stoppers, 34.7cm high (4)FootnotesProvenance Darell Thompson-Schwab Collection It is rare to find a matching pair of large decanters for ale such as this, but these serve as a reminder that strong beer or ale could be drunk at the table in polite society as long as it was served from decanters. A pair of labelled magnum ale decanters from the Kaplan Collection was sold by Bonhams on 15 November 2017, lot 21 and is illustrated by Martine Newby, Eighteenth Century English Glass from the Collection of Julius and Ann Kaplan (1998), fig.54. A labelled magnum beer decanter of similar form enamelled with hops and barley in the Beilby workshop is illustrated by Christopher Sheppard and John Smith Glass from the Restoration to the Regency (1990), p.76, no.112 and was sold by Bonhams as part of the A C Hubbard Jr Collection on 30 November 2011, lot 141.
An impressive pair of engraved magnum ale or beer decanters and stoppers, circa 1770Of generous 'sugarloaf' shape, decorated to both sides with tied sprays of hops and barley, with lobed disc stoppers, 34.7cm high (4)FootnotesProvenance Darell Thompson-Schwab Collection It is rare to find a matching pair of large decanters for ale such as this, but these serve as a reminder that strong beer or ale could be drunk at the table in polite society as long as it was served from decanters. A pair of labelled magnum ale decanters from the Kaplan Collection was sold by Bonhams on 15 November 2017, lot 21 and is illustrated by Martine Newby, Eighteenth Century English Glass from the Collection of Julius and Ann Kaplan (1998), fig.54. A labelled magnum beer decanter of similar form enamelled with hops and barley in the Beilby workshop is illustrated by Christopher Sheppard and John Smith Glass from the Restoration to the Regency (1990), p.76, no.112 and was sold by Bonhams as part of the A C Hubbard Jr Collection on 30 November 2011, lot 141.
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