CIRCA 1750, PERHAPS SILESIAN

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An engraved armorial wine-glass
CIRCA 1750, PERHAPS SILESIAN
The slender oviform bowl with a gilt rim and engraved with a coat-of-arms of a shield with three leaves surmounted by the crest of a helmet with plumes and flanked by ermine-backed mantling, the reverse with the monogram MVDP within foliage scrolls, on a hollow knopped stem (slight wear to gilding)
5 1/8 in. (13 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

According to paper labels to the base, the '.. Arms are those of Von Der Pahlen, of the Baltic Provinces of Russia The Crest of Koskull, a branch of Pahlen'; another label is for Churchill Glass; and another for the B.A.D.A.

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