Jim Peake
Head of Department
Lot 49*
A set of four engraved and crested decanters, circa 1770
5 June 2019, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge£1,500 - £2,000
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Fergus Gambon
Director
A set of four engraved and crested decanters, circa 1770
Of 'shouldered' shape each engraved with a chained wine label hung with vines, two inscribed with the name 'PORT', the other two 'WHITE', the reverse of each engraved with the Upton family crest, the decanters 24.5cm high, offered together with four various, ill-fitting mushroom stoppers (8)
Footnotes
The crest is a warhorse, passant, on a ducal coronet and is for the Upton family. Several branches of the Upton family had homes in Devon, Worcestershire and Ireland. It is possible these decanters were created for Clotworthy Upton, 1st Baron Templetown of Castle Upton, co. Antrim. It is most unusual to find a set of four shouldered decanters surviving together, complete with family crests. The necks are individually numbered in diamond-point 2, 3, 4 and 5 and so these would originally have had matching numbered stoppers.
