Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Both double handled forms the smaller by Reed & Barton, Taunton, Massachusetts, third quarter 19th century, with cast floral relief rim and double handles, well featuring engraved floral spandrels and diapered field, marked "MF'D AND PLATED BY / REED & BARTON / WIRE STRENGTHENED AND PAT'D DEC 10, 1857" and numbered "4089 20" (26 1/2 x 16 1/4 in.); the larger with canted corners, beaded rim with floral medallion and scrollwork decoration, marked "ENGLAND" to the underside (30 x 19 in.).
From the Important Glass Collection of Wilson and Susan Craigie, Richmond, Virginia Both with scratches and areas of bleed to plate.