This glass decanter was engraved by Stephen Lerche in 1890. Stephen worked with his father, Emanuel Lerche, at the Alloa Pottery in Clackmananshire. The decanter was given to the museum by Miss M S Lerche in 1968.
The decanter has an egg-shaped body, a long neck with a frilled rim and a separate diamond-cut stopper. The body is engraved with a heron rising from the water, while the base is cut on the underside in a flower pattern with 24 narrow petals.
Emanuel Lerche was a Bohemian engraver who arrived in Edinburgh in 1853. In 1873 he moved to Alloa in Clackmannanshire to work for W. & J. A. Bailley at the Alloa Pottery.
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