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Lot 6

Two cordial glasses and a wine glass with twist stems, circa 1755-65

23 June 2021, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £765 inc. premium

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Two cordial glasses and a wine glass with twist stems, circa 1755-65

With plain round runnel bowls, the cordials comprising one with a particularly tight multi-spiral airtwist stem, 17.1cm high, and one with a double-series opaque twist stem enclosing a pair of heavy spiral threads outside of a multi-ply corkscrew, 17cm high, the wine with a well-constructed mixed twist stem containing a multi-spiral air corkscrew entwined with a single opaque white spiral thread, 15.8cm high (3)

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Sotheby's sale, 15 December 1998, lot 52 (mixed-twist glass)

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