A 'Privateer' opaque-twist wine-glass
A 'Privateer' opaque-twist wine-glass

CIRCA 1760

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A 'Privateer' opaque-twist wine-glass
Circa 1760
The slightly flared bucket bowl engraved with a ship in full sail and inscribed above Succefs to the DEFIANCE Privateer, the stem with two entwined opaque gauze cables above a conical foot (two chips to footrim and one small chip to underside of footrim)
6 in. (15 cm.) high

拍品專文

This Bristol privateer owned by George Bush, Richard George, Richard Symes, John Snow, William Libby and Co., was first declared on 10th March 1757. It was a ship of 200 tons with twenty guns and was successively commanded by Captains Clarke and Condon. For another example see Francis Buckley, Old English Glass(1925), pl. 33D.