CIRCA 1715

Details

A baluster wine-glass
Circa 1715
The generous bell bowl supported on a seven-ringed annulated knopped stem of graduated size and terminating in a basal knop, on a folded conical foot (small blown bubble to edge of footrim)
61/8 in. (15.5 cm.) high

Provenance

Graeme and Molly Cranch Collection, sale Christie's, 17 November 1992, lot 139.
Anon., sale Christie's, 29 June 1993, lot 144.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Cf. W.A. Thorpe, A History of English and Irish Glass (1969 Ed.) pl. LXXXVIII (3); 'Strange & Rare', Catalogue, 50th Anniversary Exhibition 1937-1987, The Glass Circle, p. 15, no. 34; L.M. Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (Woodbridge, 1986) no. 77, and the example sold in these Rooms on 15 June 1994, lot 50.

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