Lot 77
77
THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A CEREMONIAL GOBLET AND COVER, the flared funnel bowl with gadrooned lower part supported on a collared knop, the stem formed as four wrythen-moulded loops, each applied with pincered ornament, above a short plain section and basal knop, on a folded conical foot, the domed cover with gadrooned upper part, the finial in the form of a crown with four scroll arms applied with pincered ornament surrounding a central knopped and flammiform column, late 17th century

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A CEREMONIAL GOBLET AND COVER, the flared funnel bowl with gadrooned lower part supported on a collared knop, the stem formed as four wrythen-moulded loops, each applied with pincered ornament, above a short plain section and basal knop, on a folded conical foot, the domed cover with gadrooned upper part, the finial in the form of a crown with four scroll arms applied with pincered ornament surrounding a central knopped and flammiform column, late 17th century
45.5cm. high

Lot Essay

This hitherto unrecorded goblet and cover, both in inspiration and construction, belongs to a small group of ceremonial wares with either 'nipt diamond waies' or gadrooned ornament variously dated in the literature between 1680 and 1700. Cf. 'Glass at the Fitzwilliam Museum', Catalogue, p. 86, no. 199 and no. 200; W.A. Thorpe, op. cit., pl. XXVIII (formerly in the Hamilton Clements Collection) and pl. XXX, no. 2 (Victoria and Albert Museum Collection), and for the celebrated example in the British Museum engraved in 1757 by Jacob Sang see W.A. Thorpe, ibid., pl. XXX, no. 1 and Harden/Painter/Pinder-Wilson/Tait, Masterpieces of Glass, pp. 177-178, no. 249

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