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Director's Choice - Charles Gordon, 11th Marquess of Huntly’s Pilgrim Flasks
This week’s Directors Choice focuses on this magnificent pair of Victorian pilgrim bottles. The history of these spectacular decorative objects is a fascinating journey and these oglorious ecorative triumphs were mad by the great firm of Garrard under the partnership of Sebastian and Robert Garrard.
Each flask has a flattened circular body, chased and is engraved on one side with scenes of medieval knights and horses in rocky landscapes with castles in the distance. The other side engraved with a crest, raised on a spreading rectangular stem and a shaped oval foot. This in turn chased with scrolling foliage, mermaids, and grotesque masks. The cylindrical neck with acanthus, dolphins, and flowering urns is topped by a fixed domed cover chased with leaves and with a beaded border. The scrolled handles cast with grotesque heads and acanthus issuing from the mouths of turtles surmounted by putti.
Each flask has a flattened circular body, chased and is engraved on one side with scenes of medieval knights and horses in rocky landscapes with castles in the distance. The other side engraved with a crest, raised on a spreading rectangular stem and a shaped oval foot. This in turn chased with scrolling foliage, mermaids, and grotesque masks. The cylindrical neck with acanthus, dolphins, and flowering urns is topped by a fixed domed cover chased with leaves and with a beaded border. The scrolled handles cast with grotesque heads and acanthus issuing from the mouths of turtles surmounted by putti.
