An Extremely Rare Pair of Irish Georgian Cork Glass Carafes, Ireland Circa 1800

 

Both carafes of robust mallet form, decorated with basal cut flutes & engraved swags rising to triple ring necks. The undersides of their bases bearing moulded factory marks for Cork Glass Company.

Given that the mouth diameters are proportionally much larger than those belonging to traditional sized decanters, as well as the absence of the necks having a ground interior surface, strongly supports the fact that these vessels were never intended to have stoppers. They are instead carafes, also known as ‘table water bottles’, which would have been filled and then placed at either end of the table or on the sideboard to be poured immediately with the meal.

(The Cork Glass Company produced wares for a relatively brief period, from 1783-1818).

No comparative examples of either the form or the cutting of this pair of carafe have been observed during the time of research.

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