A early punch-bowl

CIRCA 1690

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A early punch-bowl
Circa 1690
The circular bowl with in-curving rim, the lower part moulded with 'nipt diamond waies', the domed and folded foot moulded with a canopy of 'nipt diamond waies'
9 in. (23 cm.) diam., 8 in. (21.5 cm.) high

Lot Essay

For other punch-bowls with a similarly moulded canopied foot see Joseph Bles, Rare English Glasses of the 17th & 18th Centuries, p. 191, pl. 65, W.A. Thorpe, A History of English and Irish Glass(1969 ed.), Pl. LXXVI, no. 2 and R.J. Charleston, op. cit.(1984), pl. 29 c.

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