Primary Description:
Colorless lead glass; blown, pressed, cut, assembled. Glass ship on waves, with ormolu mounts and figures; hull of ship formed as large, blown, cut ovoid form, open at top; sides elaborately cut, with band of intersecting arcs around top, creating series of rounded ovals with notched borders, diamonds between; faceted cross-cut band below; wide band of ovals bordered with cut stars below, bisected by rounded band; wide band of ovals bordered with cut stars below, bisected by rounded band; bottom covered with field of diamond facets; prow mounted with ormolu point and rippling sides, surmounted by hippocamp with lion's head, and figure of standing nude child fluttering drapery, holding one hand up, as if shading his eyes for better vision; stern mounted with ormolu structure of elaborate scrollwork, with molded top bar; oval openings at rear; flat, elaborately-cut rudder of rounded, roughly triangular shape mounted at rear, in ormolu frame; hull resting in molded and cut glass waves, with undulating, irregular tops and cut grooves on bottom; in rectangular ormolu frame, with rounded projections at sides; diamond-cut glass band on sides, below; fitted ormolu platform, with another nude child with billowing drapery, loosening an ormolu hawser from a mooring post mounted on one corner of upper ormolu frame; conforming, rounded base with cut glass panels of intersecting arcs, forming large, rounded, triangular bosses, outlined with notched bands, and with scrolls at corners; conforming, flat ormolu base with straight sides.