Provenance
Sale: Christie’s New York, 17 October 1979, lot 108
The cut-glass bodies with silver-gilt mounts, the cylindrical necks chased with acanthus leaves above girdles of laurel leaves, the hinged covers with narrow Greek key pattern border and pine cone finials atop an acanthus leaf quatrefoil, the spouts engraved with monogram MBT, applied below the necks with laurel leaf swags, the angular handles with applied ribbons and further decorated with three projecting buds.
