Lot 234
  • 234

A George IV silver-gilt "Portland Vase" wine cooler, Philip Rundell for Rundell, Bridge and Rundell, London 1820

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Description

  • height 9 3/4 in.
  • 24.8 cm
modeled after the Roman glass original, the cast body with a frieze of partly-draped maidens and youths beneath trees and a flying putto, the slip-lock upper body with herringbone-chased handles, the base with a roundel of a youth in Phrygian cap, detachable liner and inner rim, marked on body, upper body, and liner, the last also stamped underneath with the Latin signature of Rundell, Bridge and Rundell.

Provenance

Sotheby's, New York, June 17, 1981, Lot 78