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Sulphide Portrait on Bottle
England
Apsley Pellatt (attributed) circa 1819-1840
Width: 7.6 cm (3 inches) Height: 10.5 cm (4 1/8 inches)
(702469)

Cut-Glass bottle with stopper; sulphide profile portrait of George III set in panel on obverse side; diagonal cuts on reverse panel; deeply grooved, horizontal cuts on shoulders and side edges; mushroom-shaped stopper cut with deep radial facets

Photo by Gary Andrashko, Illinois State Museum

<B>Sulphide Portrait on Bottle<BR>England<BR>Apsley Pellatt (attributed) circa 1819-1840</B><BR>Width: 7.6 cm (3 inches) Height: 10.5 cm (4 1/8 inches)<BR>(702469)<BR><BR>Cut-Glass bottle with stopper; sulphide profile portrait of George III set in panel on obverse side; diagonal cuts on reverse panel; deeply grooved, horizontal cuts on shoulders and side edges; mushroom-shaped stopper cut with deep radial facets
     
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