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Glassware Collection - Worcestershire Museum of Freemasonry
A Regency Hoggit decanter and stand
WMLMT Classification:- Decanter
Description
"Date: Early 1800’s.
Origin: English.
Style: A rare form of decanter called a ‘Hoggit’ or ‘Hogget’ decanter. These originate from the late1600’s and were designed for use at formal dinners such as Livery Company dinners and later at Masonic meetings. The purpose of being shaped as they are prevents the decanter being put down to rest other than on its base thus preventing people ‘hogging’ the port when it is passed round the table.Eventually it will reach the Earlier versions tended to have a purely rounded bottom. This item has a rounded base but it also has a fluted central nose like button/ spike designed to assist the decanter’s stability when sitting on its base. This button is cut and decorated with deep leaf design on the thick walled base. The whole is thick walled. The spout is a most unusual shape in a form of a high waisted flattened sphere with a rounded top leading to a narrow pouring aperture 1.7cm in diameter. The flattened waisted sphere is approx. 5.5cm in diameter and decorated with an oxo pattern. Internally the glass has been shaped in the form of a round funnel to enable the liquid to be guided into the narrower aperture needed because the internal width of the neck is much wider leading to it. The neck has deeply cut elongated ovals approx. 5cm long. It then leads to the shoulder with seven deeply cut straight rings. The body is cut on top with unusual shaped oblong panels connected by rods forming a chain. Below that is a series of square cut panels each with a masonic tool engraved and depicted being a gavel, a mallet, a square, a level, a plumb rule, a skirret, a pencil, and a pair of compasses. Below that there is a series of five -petaled flower heads all around. Stopper: A unusual hollow blown spherical form but with a flat area on top so it can be placed on its end when out of the decanter. It is marked with the longitudinal terrestrial lines together with lines for the arctic, Antarctic and the equator. The peg is 2.4 cm long and narrow 1.6cm to match the narrow aperture in the neck. There is a circular disk onto which the stopper rests on the neck.
Base: It has a white metal frame which has been dipped in brass. The circular frame is filled with a hard type of black painted plaster which slopes down from the circumference to the centre where there is a circular hole 4.5 cm in diameter with gadrooding. On the rim there are placed equidistant three bulls heads with horns. Directly below each head there is on the base a bulls hoof acting as a standing foot. The base is 14.7cm in diameter and is 3.5cm deep on the edge. The circumference has a series of panels with stylised flowers; on one there is shield with a harp and one with three English lions."
Properties
"Height: Total height in the stand and including the stopper 36cm.
Weight: 1898 grams for the decanter and stopper. The base is 778 grams.
Condition: Very good. The only damage is three minor bruises to the rim of the aperture on the neck. No other obvious damage to the glass and no repairs. The stand has some wear to the to the black paint which has worn off to reveal the whitish plaster. The straight gadrooning relief has also worn through to the plaster thus highlighting it."
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