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 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.

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A set of four engraved and crested decanters, circa 1770

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