Three Continental Rococo-style Silver-mounted Colorless Glass Items

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Three Continental Rococo-style Silver-mounted Colorless Glass Items, two French cruets with maker's mark "H&H" with two axes, mounted with .950 silver cast with rocaille and foliage, with etched and cut glass bottle-form bodies, ht. 8 1/4; the decanter Wolf & Knell, Hanau, Germany, with putto-form finial to stopper, and etched square tapered body mounted with a pierced register of putti and birds amidst a rocaille ground, ht. 11 5/8 in.
Estimate $500-700

All in good overall conditon, with no visible chips or cracks to glass. One cruet with metal fatigue seam on the front cartouche. Tall decanter with copper wire securing the putto finial to stopper, stopper does not fit tightly, with rubbing to high relief areas.


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