Jim Peake
Head of Department
Lot 86
A rare colour twist wine glass, circa 1770
20 November 2019, 10:30 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £4,437.50 inc. premium
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A rare colour twist wine glass, circa 1770
The bell bowl solid at the base, the stem with a central opaque white gauze enclosed by spiralling opaque white, translucent red, translucent blue and translucent green threads, the latter two encasing opaque white threads, with upper, central and basal knops, on a conical foot, 17.1cm high
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Provenance
E Cecil Kny Collection, Sotheby's sale, 16 April 1948, lot 65
Walter F Smith Collection, Sotheby's sale, 24 June 1968, lot 808
Harvey's Wine Museum, Bonhams sale, 1 October 2003, lot 226
Basil Jefferies Collection
An almost identical wine glass from the Julius and Ann Kaplan Collection was sold by Bonhams on 17 December 2008, lot 335, and is illustrated by Martine Newby, Eighteenth Century English Glass (1998), p.34, fig.35. Another near identical glass was sold by Sotheby's on 2 December 2004, lot 104.
