Moulded in the form of a scallop shell, the tapering cylindrical neck with a trailed vermicular collar, applied with two trailed and pincered scroll handles in turquoise-blue glass, set on a ribbed hollow flattened knop between collars and a folded conical foot, 20.5cm high

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Provenance
Lady 'Lili' Maria Elisabeth Augusta Cartwright (née von Sandizell)
Thence by descent to her son, William Cornwallis Cartwright, Aynhoe Park, Oxfordshire
Thence by family descent to the present owner

A pair of very similar shell-shaped vases from the Soulages Collection is in the Victoria and Albert Museum (accession nos. 5511-1859 and 5513-1859). Other examples are in the Wallace Collection (accession no. C540) illustrated by Suzanne Higgott in the catalogue (2011), pp.112-3 and 379, no.29, in the Rijksmuseum (accession no. RBK 1984-49) illustrated by Pieter C Ritsema van Eck, Glass in the Rijksmuseum, Vol.1 (1993), p.106, no.147, and at Veste Coburg (accession nos. HA 397 and HA 402). It is thought that the form of these vessels may be influenced by earlier Roman examples. Compare with the 1st century AD amphoriskos illustrated by Niwa Kunina, Ancient Glass in the Hermitage Collection (1997), pp.126-7, no.92.

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