Decorated in the London workshop of James Giles, the goblet with a generous round funnel bowl decorated with a meandering branch of fruiting vine, the double-series stem with a fourteen-ply spiral band around a multi-ply corkscrew, on a conical foot, 19.1cm high, the ale with an elongated round funnel bowl decorated with crossed ears of barley, the reverse with two mayflies in flight, a gilt band to the rim, the double-series stem with a pair of spiral tapes encircled by a multi-ply spiral band, on a conical foot, 19cm high (2)

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Provenance
Sotheby's sale, 21 May 1979, lot 136 (goblet)
Sotheby's sale, 15 September 1992, lot 54 (ale glass)
James Hall Collection, Bonhams Sale, 17 December 2008, lot 144 (ale glass)

A similar goblet was sold by Sotheby's on 28 November 1972, lot 85. A set of three very similarly decorated goblets with ogee bowls from the Royal Brierley Collection was sold by Sotheby's on 3rd March 1998, lot 68. For a similar pair of ale glasses see that sold by Bonhams on 4 June 2008, lot 314.

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