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Lot 34

An interesting opaque twist wine glass and a mixed-twist toasting glass, circa 1760

5 June 2019, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £956.25 inc. premium

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An interesting opaque twist wine glass and a mixed-twist toasting glass, circa 1760

The drawn trumpet toasting glass with a slender stem containing an opaque white gauze within a pair of mercurial air spirals, 19cm high, the wine with a generous pan-topped bowl on a double series opaque twist stem with a central, very fine black soot core, perhaps intentional, 15cm high (2)

Footnotes

While the soot core inside the stem may be accidental, it is possible this was a deliberate attempt to create a black colour twist. The toasting glass is illustrated by L M Bickerton, 18th Century English Drinking glasses (1986), p.233, fig. 710

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