Jim Peake
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Lot 79
A very rare egg-knopped baluster goblet, circa 1710-20
1 December 2021, 10:30 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £12,750 inc. premium
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A very rare egg-knopped baluster goblet, circa 1710-20
The pointed round funnel bowl solid at the base, the upper cushion knop resting on a wide flattened angular knop, above a rare egg knop and small basal inverted baluster, over a folded conical foot, 20cm high
Footnotes
Provenance
A D Brett Collection
With Howard Phillips, 1989
Richard Emanuel Collection
With Delomosne and Son, 4 October 2010
Patrick and Mavis Walker Collection
Literature
Delomosne and Son, A Gathering of Glass (2010), no.8
In their catalogue, Delomosne and Son cite the present goblet as a remarkable example of the rarest of all baluster glasses. Whilst egg knops are exceptionally rare and considered by many to be the ultimate knop form in the baluster period, almost all recorded examples are teared. It is highly unusual to find a solid egg knop such as this. An egg-knopped goblet of similar size from the A C Hubbard Jr. Collection is illustrated by Ward Lloyd, A Wine Lover's Glasses (2000), pp.34 and 37, pl.31.
