A Pair of Patented Gilt Metal Mounted & Painted Glass Hanging Apothecary Display Carboys c.1891 sub-Art & Sculpture and draws on many of

and draws on many of its decorative traits

The mirror is in tired but very attractive condition with the ebonised finish chipping and flaking back to ivory in several areas

the circular base cast with garlands of flowers

He was a pupil of his father and of Samuel Gilkes and he studied music and was a chorister at Westminster Abbey between 1811-1817

with yet a further and more subtle

A Pair of Patented Gilt Metal Mounted & Painted Glass Hanging Apothecary Display Carboys c.1891 sub-Art & Sculpture and draws on many ofOrigin: Possibly American Period: Late Victorian Provenance: The Hutton Collection Date: c. 1891 Widths: 10 Heights: 20 or 27 with chains (each) The rare and unusual pair of hanging apothecary display carboys each of generous ovoid form and formed from thick hand blown glass with swirling painted surfaces, one in a warm amber tone and the other in a deep malachite green, each mounted within a decorative gilt metal suspension collar with scalloped