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Cruet Stand, Casters and Bottles

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The stand form as three octagonal cast platforms set as a triangle, raised on four cast multi-scroll supports terminating in hoof feet of undulating outline, with a cast scroll side handle; the frame fitted with one large and a pair of smaller casters of octagonal form on spreading bases, with high domed covers, two pierced with panels of crosses and scrolls, one of the smaller samples engraved with conforming decoration, all with baluster finials; the two facet-cut glass club-shaped bottles with octagonal domed caps with baluster finials; each end of the frame fitted with an octagonal holder for the bottle caps; the stand, casters and bottle caps engraved with a crest.
Department of Paintings Sculpture & Decorative Arts Archibald Alexander Hutchinson New York; his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum 1949. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Bequest of Archibald A. Hutchinson Esq.
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Title: Cruet Stand, Casters and Bottles
Description:
The stand form as three octagonal cast platforms set as a triangle, raised on four cast multi-scroll supports terminating in hoof feet of undulating outline, with a cast scroll side handle; the frame fitted with one large and a pair of smaller casters of octagonal form on spreading bases, with high domed covers, two pierced with panels of crosses and scrolls, one of the smaller samples engraved with conforming decoration, all with baluster finials; the two facet-cut glass club-shaped bottles with octagonal domed caps with baluster finials; each end of the frame fitted with an octagonal holder for the bottle caps; the stand, casters and bottle caps engraved with a crest.

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