A BOHEMIAN ENGRAVED GLASS GOBLET AND COVER

CIRCA 1725

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A BOHEMIAN ENGRAVED GLASS GOBLET AND COVER
CIRCA 1725
The faceted bowl engraved with birds perched on bouquets of fruit and flowers suspended from swags below continuous scrolling foliage and palmettes, the domed cover similarly engraved with a facet-cut spire finial, on a facet-cut baluster stem above an octagonal foot cut with lenses to the underside (minute chipping to rims)
10½ in. (26.6 cm.) high

Provenance

Applied with a 19th century paper label inscribed 'Taken out of the/moat, adlington/Hall, A.D. 1806.'

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Lot Essay

Adlington Hall, in Macclesfield, Cheshire has been home to the Legh family since the fourteenth century. Renovations during the first half of the 18th century converted the Tudor building into a large Georgian manor. The composer Handel was a friend of the Legh family and played the organ in the Great Hall in 1741.

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