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A J & J Northwood engraved glass claret jug by George Woodall, circa 1872

20 November 2019, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £5,312.50 inc. premium

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A J & J Northwood engraved glass claret jug by George Woodall, circa 1872

Of pear shape with a shaped rim and hollow loop handle, finely decorated to one side with three stags in a wooded landscape, the other with a footbridge across a wooded river, castle ruins in the distance, elaborate scrollwork and garlands bearing fruit and flowers to the front, on a short hollow stem and circular star-cut foot, 30cm high

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Woodall Family Collection

Illustrated by C W Perry, The Cameo Glass of Thomas and George Woodall (2000), p.15. This jug was engraved at Northwood's by George Woodall for his wife Pamela's twenty-first Birthday in 1872. George had joined his brother Thomas at Northwood's in 1862, and married Pamela in February 1872. By 1876 Woodall had left Northwood's to work for Thomas Webb and Sons.

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