By Reggie Darling
One of the things that we collect at Darlington House is Anglo-Irish cut glass, concentrating on examples made during the first quarter of the nineteenth century, when the house was built.
A single Anglo-Irish sweetmeat urn and cover
circa 1815-1830
Initially we focused on buying articles for the table, such as salts. As our confidence grew and we became more knowledgeable we added vases and other vessels. Several years ago we splurged and bought a pair of fine Regency cut glass candlesticks hung with prisms. More recently, we've added a number of footed urns with covers, known as sweetmeats.
The same sweetmeat, with cover off
When we bought the first of these vessels, the single one shown at the outset of this story, I wasn't exactly sure... More...
