Thank you Ekimp for the further information
On the British Museum site it shows a white over red example here:
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_2009-8049-1-a-band mentions there is a '
similar example in the V&A, acquired in 1854' and also goes on to mention '
another example' in C. Hajdamach, 'British Glass 1800-1914', so possibly three different examples? :
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Curator's comments
See B. Morris, 'Victorian Table Glass and Ornaments', London 1978, p. 35 and p. 37, pl. 17 for a similar example in the V&A, acquired in 1854: http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O326654/decanter-and-stopper-george-bacchus-and/
For another example see C. Hadjamach, 'British Glass 1800-1914', Woodbridge 1991, col. pl. 6, p. 87, text p. 84. Bacchus & Sons were widely praised for their cased and cut glass shown at the Great Exhibition of 1851, see 'Art Journal Illustrated Catalogue of the Great Exhibition of 1851', p. 32.'
The link given of P.32 in the catalogue of the Great Exhibition shows a number of examples of glass exhibited by Messrs. Bacchus & Sons. Unfortunately none are like these decanters.
See p.32 as indicated in the British Museum Curator's comments:
https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Art_Journal_Illustrated_Catalogue/f0EHIyNi3uAC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=art+journal+illustrated+great+exhibition+george+bacchus&pg=PR7&printsec=frontcoverThe information in the British Museum notes says the example in the V&A was acquired in 1854. Unfortunately on the notes on the V&A link to that example nothing is mentioned about the date it was acquired.
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O326654/decanter-and-stopper-george-bacchus-and/
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