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Lot 71

A large heavy baluster goblet, circa 1710

20 November 2019, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £7,562.50 inc. premium

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A large heavy baluster goblet, circa 1710

The thistle-shaped bowl with a solid base enclosing a tiny tear, the stem with an impressive teared mushroom knop, the tear extending into a basal ball knop, on a conical folded foot, 23.1cm high

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Provenance
With Peter Adamson, Great Dunmow, 7 October 2008
Basil Jefferies Collection

A similar goblet from the Ron and Mary Thomas Collection was sold by Bonhams on 4 June 2008, lot 14. A wine glass of similar form is illustrated by Dwight P Lanmon, The Golden Age of English Glass (2011), pp.114-5, no.33. Another mushroom-knopped wine glass from the A C Hubbard Collection was sold by Bonhams on 30 November 2011, lot 16, and is illustrated and discussed by Ward Lloyd, A Wine Lover's Glasses, p.37, pl.29 and p.34.

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