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Lot 26*

Two engraved light baluster wine glasses, circa 1740

20 November 2019, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £828.75 inc. premium

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Two engraved light baluster wine glasses, circa 1740

The trumpet bowls engraved with bands of fruiting vine to the rims, set on slender multi-knopped stems, one with a beaded acorn knop above an inverted baluster section, between upper and basal knops, 19.7cm high, the other with a beaded shoulder knop over a central angular knop and a teared plain lower section, 17.4cm high (2)

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Provenance
With Delomosne and Son (taller glass)
Christie's sale, 9 November 2004, lot 193 (shorter glass)

The shorter glass was exhibited at Huis van Gijn, Dordrecht, 1993-2004, no.17410. A similarly engraved wine glass with a beaded acorn knop from the John De Tscharner Vischer Collection was sold by Bonhams on 18 May 2016, lot 66.

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