A Pair of Patented Gilt Metal Mounted & Painted Glass Hanging Apothecary Display Carboys c.1891 sub-Antiques A rare survivor

A rare survivor

These chairs would have been in a farmhouse deep in the Irish countryside and would have been either fireside or in the scullery

with ethereal light penetrating the two large gothic windows at eventide

for example a terrifying Zero Gravity or Ghost Train or a stomach wrenching Mega-Drop or Looper

The large rectangular overmantle mirror having the original rectangular heavy glass plate surrounded on three sides by the giltwood beaded frame

A Pair of Patented Gilt Metal Mounted & Painted Glass Hanging Apothecary Display Carboys c.1891 sub-Antiques A rare survivorOrigin: 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