The radically cut base supporting a diamond cut and ormolu mounted glass column with feather-cut scalloped edge drip pan below a similarly scalloped nozzle. The drip pan and nozzle hung with chains of buttons and round double cut icicles.

English, Circa 1820

John Blades opened his showrooms at 5 Ludgate Hill in 1783 and remained there until his death in 1829. Unusual in that he used an outside designer, the well known architect J. B. Papworth, Blades was also the first English glass company to open a branch in India, in Calcutta. By the time of his marriage in 1789 he had been appointed Cut Glass Manufacturer to George III and was known as 'the great glass man of Ludgate Hill'.

Height: 10" 25.5cm

Diameter: 4 " 11.5cm