Arts & Crafts ‘Personal’ Miniature Whiskey Decanter C1920
Stock No
TVE1920
2017
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Item Description
An unusual miniature Arts & Crafts pillar moulded glass decanter with spiral hollow glass teardrop stopper and wrythen, twisted body, Circa 1920s English. Diminutive, personal decanters catered for those who preferred whisky to Port after dinner. For reference, in Brideshead Revisited, Lady Marchmain provided a port decanter and ‘small individual spirit decanters which held about a quarter of a bottle, and we always placed, full, before anyone who asked for it’.
Item Info
Seller
Seller Location
Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire
Item Dimensions
H: 21cm W: 7cm D: 7cm
Period
1920s
Item Location
United Kingdom
Seller Location
Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire
Item Location
United Kingdom
Seller Contact No
+44 (0)1453 836773
+44 (0)7770 915851