A Rare Acid-Etched & Frosted Glass Double Hands Dish from The World’s Fair, Boston, by John Ford & Co of Holyrood Glass Works, Edinburgh c.1875

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A Rare Acid-Etched & Frosted Glass Double Hands Dish from The World’s Fair, Boston, by John Ford & Co of Holyrood Glass Works, Edinburgh c.1875Origin: British Period: Mid Late 19thC Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1875 6 Height: 1. 5 Width: 6. 25 Length: 7. 75 (all at extremities) The fine quality clear frosted and acid etched glass dish crisply modelled in the form of cupped hands or gowpen with a cluster of grapes and leaves at the wrist, sometimes called Queen Victoria's Hands, the base acid etched with the bee case English Registry diamond mark for parcel 8, class 111, for the 25th of

each with bergere cane seats and simulated bamboo supports of typical Regency design with corvetto balls to each

ten years after this portrait was painted in 1864 and was buried in Wednesbury at St Bartholomew

with some having more than others

perhaps waiting to break into a smile at any moment

almost surrealist feel to it

and let you know I am still living

Every part of the plant is poisonous

Their shadows o'er the current's flow

Illustrated descriptive catalogue of optical

she was ne-named Ogano in 1929

and it was Chase who was responsible for the distinctive Pan label seen on this example

Length: 18 inches (Pole)