Topic: An unusual Queen Victoria commemorative pressed glass jug.

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 A pressed glass Queen Victoria commemorative jug.  15.8cm tall x 9.3cm diameter (including the spout) at the top rim.  The sides of the jug are decorated with two embossed portrait medallions of Queen Victoria surrounded by the thistle-rose-& shamrock emblems.  Produced in a three piece mould; quite a crude finish with numerous striations and lots of bubbles in the body. The loop handle looks as if it is pressed rather than simply being a loop of molten glass applied by hand.

(Permission for the re-use of these images on the GMB granted by astraman10).

This seems to be the crowned head of the ‘young’ Queen Victoria (rather than the crowned head with widow’s cap normally associated with the 1887 and 1897 gold and diamond jubilees).  In somewhat similar style to the portrait medallion shown at
https://sites.google.com/site/molwebbhistory/Home/registered-designs/molineaux-webb-unregistered-pressed-glass/plates
and some of the American plates commemorating Victoria’s accession and coronation in 1837-1838  - see, for example http://www.rubylane.com/item/842649-00001277/Royal-Memorabilia-Queen-Victoria-Plate   

A similar portrait head of Victoria is also seen on American commemorative pieces celebrating the marriage and Albert and Victoria
http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/9217526
 but they usually show Albert and Victoria together.

I think the only other Royal commemorative event that might be contemporary with the jug is Queen Victoria’s silver jubilee of 1862, but I can’t find any commemorative glass for that jubilee (presumably because Victoria was still in deep mourning after Alberts’s death).

I haven’t seen this particular portrait or pattern on glass before. Any information or opinions would be welcome.

Fred.