A REGENCY CUT GLASS AND ORMOLU EPERGNE BY JOHN BLADES, English, circa 1815
Height: 17 in; 43 cm
Diameter: 16 in; 41 cm
Diameter: 16 in; 41 cm
4409941
£10,000 - £50,000
Further images
Note: One cut glass dish is a replacement. An aquatint illustrating the showrooms of John Blades was published by Rudolph Ackermann in 1823. A similar epergne features in this illustration....
Note: One cut glass dish is a replacement.
An aquatint illustrating the showrooms of John Blades was published by Rudolph Ackermann in 1823. A similar epergne features in this illustration.
This epergne is the only known example by the Blades workshop to have come to light so far.
Provenance
Private collection, Scotland.Literature
Rudolph Ackermann, Repository of the Arts, 1 April 1823.5
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