Jim Peake
Head of Department
Lot 143
A rare wash-enamelled airtwist wine glass, circa 1760
1 December 2021, 10:30 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £1,530 inc. premium
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A rare wash-enamelled airtwist wine glass, circa 1760
The ogee bowl painted in a thin white enamel with a branch of fruiting vine, the veins of the leaves scratched into the enamel, the double series airtwist stem with a multi-spiral column encircled by a pair of mercurial twists, over a conical foot, 15cm high
Footnotes
Provenance
Sotheby's sale, 15 May 1978, lot 58
Sotheby's sale, 10 February 1986, lot 31
Sotheby's sale, 30 November 1999, lot 163
A C Hubbard Jr. Collection, Bonhams sale, 30 November 2011, lot 158
Literature
Ward Lloyd, A Wine Lover's Glasses (2000), p.78-9, pl.100(b)
An ale glass from the same distinctive group and with a similar stem was sold by Bonhams on 14 November 2018, lot 112. See also that from the Lazarus Collection in Bristol Museum and Art Gallery (inv. no.Na830).
