An engraved colour-twist wine-glass

CIRCA 1765

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An engraved colour-twist wine-glass
Circa 1765
The bell bowl engraved with a flower-spray, the reverse with a bird in flight holding a berried twig in its beak, the stem with spiral airtwist gauze core entwined by a single opaque-turquoise thread, on a conical foot (chips to footrim)
7in. (18cm.) high

Lot Essay

Cf. Grant R. Francis, Old English Drinking Glasses (1926), pl. XX, no. 142. Similar glasses were sold in these Rooms on 30 May 1979, lot 119, 9 October 1978, lot 104, 4 June 1980, lot 147 and 24 February 1981, lot 91.

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