Jim Peake
Head of Department
Lot 4
A very rare wine glass, circa 1725-30
15 December 2020, 14:30 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £4,590 inc. premium
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A very rare wine glass, circa 1725-30
The bell bowl with a solid base, set on an unusual teared and finely annulated swelling stem, with a small basal knop, over a high conical folded foot, 16.8cm high
Footnotes
No other glass of this precise form appears to be recorded in the literature. Baluster glasses with annulated stems of closely related form are illustrated by W A Thorpe, A History of English and Irish glasses (1929), pl.88 and by L M Bickerton, 18th Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), p.70, pl.77. Compare also to the examples sold by Bonhams on 8 December 2004, lot 11 and 3 October 2012, lot 21 and that sold by Christie's on 23 April 2002, lot 6.
