Jim Peake
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Lot 2
A very rare English quarter-size shaft and globe wine bottle, circa 1660
20 November 2019, 10:30 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £3,562.50 inc. premium
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A very rare English quarter-size shaft and globe wine bottle, circa 1660
Of attractive small size and olive green tint, with a tall tapering neck applied with a wide string rim, the compressed ovoid body with a kick-in base, 12.2cm high
Footnotes
A similar quarter-size shaft and globe bottle is illustrated Willy Van den Bossche, Antique Glass Bottles (2001), p.69, pl.6(1). A sealed example is illustrated and discussed by David Burton, Antique Sealed Bottles, Vol.2 (2015), pp.940-941, and is one of only two sealed examples known with a height below 15cm, both circa 1660 in date.
