Essex Jewelry and Antiques
Huge English 1824 Sterling & Glass Cruet Set
Regular price
$2,284.00
Presented is a gorgeous, old sterling silver and cut glass or crystal castor or cruet set made in England during the early 1800s. This is a particularly large set, with eight bottles and one center bowl. Five are for liquid like soy sauce, dressing, Worcestershire sauce, vinegar, oil, etc. and three are for powders like confection sugar, cinnamon or spices like nutmeg. The matching bottles are made of crystal or glass with classical cut diamond point decorations with vertical fluting below and panel cutting near the neck. The set has its matching stoppers. Three of the bottles have a sterling silver collar and top. The base is intended for turning the pieces around and it pivots nicely if the underside is held down. This is the heaviest base of a set like this we have ever come across, it has tremendous weight.
The stand and all of the sterling tops are marked with the lion passant for sterling silver and the duty mark of King George III’s head. The sterling bottle tops are marked with a date letter M for 1807 and a maker’s mark IR for possibly John Reily. The stand is marked with the date letter i for 1824 and a maker’s mark JA for James Arthur. Obviously the bottles and the cruet are a married set, but a happy marriage.
The bottles are all in very good overall condition. The stand is superb and I can find no faults in the sterling silver stand. There are no dents, no breaks, no splits, no monograms, no monogram removals, and no repairs. There are small chips to most of the bottles at the high points of the diamond cutting and on some of the flutes. One of the four short bottles has a crack at the neck. The center glass bowl was certainly cut down. Originally it was undoubtedly the size of one of the larger bottles. All of the glass bottles appear usable, even the cracked one.
The stand measures 9 inches in diameter and is 7 inches tall.
The stand without the bottles weighs 1260 grams or 44.4 ounces, all of this is silver.
The stand and all of the sterling tops are marked with the lion passant for sterling silver and the duty mark of King George III’s head. The sterling bottle tops are marked with a date letter M for 1807 and a maker’s mark IR for possibly John Reily. The stand is marked with the date letter i for 1824 and a maker’s mark JA for James Arthur. Obviously the bottles and the cruet are a married set, but a happy marriage.
The bottles are all in very good overall condition. The stand is superb and I can find no faults in the sterling silver stand. There are no dents, no breaks, no splits, no monograms, no monogram removals, and no repairs. There are small chips to most of the bottles at the high points of the diamond cutting and on some of the flutes. One of the four short bottles has a crack at the neck. The center glass bowl was certainly cut down. Originally it was undoubtedly the size of one of the larger bottles. All of the glass bottles appear usable, even the cracked one.
The stand measures 9 inches in diameter and is 7 inches tall.
The stand without the bottles weighs 1260 grams or 44.4 ounces, all of this is silver.