An important Moser sculptured glass ewer, circa 1885

In Amberina glass shaded from deep ruby at the rim to lighter amber at the foot, the ribbed pear shaped body with an applied amber glass handle, the front decorated in high relief with a colourful parrot, the remainder of the ewer enamelled and gilded with fruiting vine branches and scattered winged insects, 47cm high, gilt mark 2789.

A pair of ewers of the same shape in the Klabin Collection is enamelled with an identical parrot on a ground of oak leaves rather than vines. This is illustrated by Gary D. Baldwyn, Moser Glass- The Klabin Collection (2006), pp.56-57, pls.65-66. The size and quality of these ewers are exceptional and very few seem to have been produced.