Jim Peake
Head of Department
Lot 63
A rare engraved opaque twist cordial glass and a ratafia flute, circa 1760-65
29 September 2020, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £765 inc. premium
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A rare engraved opaque twist cordial glass and a ratafia flute, circa 1760-65
Moulded with fine basal flutes and set on double-series stems, the cordial with a round funnel bowl with a solid base, two stylised foliate sprays beneath the rim, the stem with a pair of opaque white spiral tapes encircled by two eight-ply spiral bands, on an unusual conical folded foot, 14cm high, the ratafia with a tall conical bowl, a continuous floral band below the rim, the stem with a pair of spiral tapes encircled by a twelve-ply spiral band, on a conical foot, 17.1cm high (2)
Footnotes
It is rare to find a folded foot on an opaque twist cordial glass. Two similar ratafia glasses from the Julia and Ann Kaplan Collection were sold by Bonhams on 15 November 2017, lot 68 and are illustrated by Martine Newby, Eighteenth Century English Glass from the Collection of Julius and Ann Kaplan (1998), figs.49 and 51.
