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Given that wine was stored in barrels and crude green glass bottles, some more pleasing container was needed to bring it to the table. Hence decanters. First used in the mid 18th century, they went through various styles & became particularly popular in the Regency period.

 
Mid 19th century blown-moulded whiskey measure engraved with quantity line.  
4 1/4"/11cm. h.

GD614
Price £50

Pair of Georgian three-ring-neck decanters cut with combs, panels & relief diamonds with matching mushroom stoppers.  
c. 1815.  9 1/4"/23.5cm. inc. stoppers.  Slight scuffing inside one.

GD620
Price £350

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Georgian panel-cut claret-jug, sparrow-beak lip, one ring to base of neck, fine tape-handle & 24-star base.  Associated stopper.  
c. 1830s.  12 1/2"/32cm. inc. stopper.

GD663
Price £250

Georgian plain glass three-ring-neck wine carafe.
 c. 1810.  8 1/4"/21cm. h.

GD632
Price £180

 
Small Georgian mallet-shaped serving measure with 3-ring neck.
Early 19th century.  6 7/8"/18cm. h.  1 pt.

GD622
Price £75

Georgian plain glass Prussian decanter with three-ring neck & bevelled lozenge stopper.  
c. 1800.  10 3/4"/27.5cm. inc. stopper.

GD609
Price £250

 
 Georgian plain glass carafe with three rings to neck.  
c. 1800.  8 3/4"/22cm.

GD608
Price £180

Elegant Georgian "Nelson" or cylinder decanter, cut with panels, printies & a star-base, three neck-rings (two facetted) & blown stopper cut to match.  
c. 1825.  10 1/2"/27cm. inc. stopper.  Possibly Irish, Waterford.
GD582
Price £210

 
Georgian panel- & comb-cut decanter with three-ring neck & cut mushroom stopper.   
c. 1820.  9 3/4"/25cm. inc. stopper.   Interior stain; chip to stopper.

GD286
Price £110

 Georgian 3-ring-neck "Prussian" decanter with two bands of twisted pulley rings, & cut with panels & diamonds. Associated mushroom stopper.
c. 1790. 10 1/4"/26.5cm. inc. stopper.

 
Georgian 3-ring-neck decanter cut with panels, checkered diamonds & combs, & cut mushroom stopper.  
c. 1815.  9 1/2"/24cm. inc. stopper.

GD545
Price £170

Pretty Georgian pint-size decanter: facetted three-ring neck, panel-cut shoulders, body ringed with raised diamonds & the base with combs.  Associated lozenge stopper.  
Early 19th century.  9"/23cm. inc. stopper.
GD660
Price £95

 
Unusual early 19th century mell decanter or carafe, amethyst in hue.  A little scratching.
c. 1820.  9 1/4"/23.5cm.

GD206
Price £180

Pretty plain glass Georgian decanter with three-ring neck & pinched target stopper.
c. 1800.  10"/25.5cm. inc. stopper.

GD610
Price £240

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Fine Georgian panel-cut jug with step-cut neck, shaped rim, tape-handle & 24-star base.  
c. 1830.  9 1/2"/24cm.

GD662
Price £180

Fine Georgian "Nelson" or cylinder decanter cut with panels, strawberry diamonds & swags, star-base, two facetted neck-rings & plain ray-cut mushroom stopper.  
c. 1820.  9 1/2"/23.5cm. inc. stopper.  Possibly Irish, Waterford.
GD583
Price £210

 Georgian pint cylinder decanter cut with panels, strawberry diamonds, printies, steps & combs, with two facetted neck rings & ray-cut mushroom stopper.  
c. 1810.  8"/20cm. inc. stopper.

GD187
Price £125

 Georgian pint size decanter, panel- & comb-cut with three facetted neck rings & associated cut mushroom stopper.  
c. 1800.  9 1/2"/24cm. inc. stopper.

GD182
Price £120

 
Two Georgian square spirit decanters with canted corners, cut with steps, strawberry diamonds & rays, shaped pouring lips, mushroom stoppers.  Early 19th century.
GD15a (on right): 8"/21cm. inc. stopper, £65
GD15b (on left) 7 3/4"/19.5cm. inc. stopper. Some chipping to the step-cutting, £45

Small 19th century two-ring neck, panel-cut & moulded serving carafe.  
5 1/2"/14cm. h.

GD454d
Price £30

Elegant set of three coloured spirit decanters (amethyst, green & blue) in ornate silver-plated stand, the bottle rims & corks simulating fruiting vine.
 c. 1840.  Overall height 16 1/4"/41cm.  Short colour blemish in green bottle.

GC704
Price £650

Georgian cut-glass cruet or spice bottle with silver sifter.  
Early 19th century.  5 1/2"/14cm.

GC702a
Price £35

 
Unique late Georgian Bristol blue spirit bottle with 2-ringed lip, professionally wheel-engraved with garland of roses & thistles.  Also with amateur diamond-point engraving of Speed the Plough, showing horse, plough & ploughman, & scythe & sickle, dedicated to  
M. Dickson From W.D. August 1832.  
10 7/8"/27.5cm.  c. 1830.
GC647b
Price £280

Small mid 19th century mallet-shaped serving measure with panel-cut neck & star-cut base.  
5 1/8"/13cm.

GD379
Price £35

 19th century opaque white glass decanter on pedestal foot, enamelled with two profiles, possibly of Pericles & Athena, inside Greek key design cartouches. c. 1860.
12 1/2"/32cm. inc. stopper.

Elegant Georgian plain glass decanter with three bladed neck rings & bevelled lozenge stopper.  
c. 1800.  10 3/4"/27.5cm. inc. stopper.

GD611
Price £260

Elegant mid 19th century cylinder decanter in deep "Bristol" green: panel-cut neck & base, one facetted ring & octagonally panel-cut stopper.  Internal bruise & tiny nibble to top of stopper. 
13 1/2"/34cm. inc. stopper.

GC784
Price £240

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