A baluster wine-glass
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A baluster wine-glass

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A baluster wine-glass
the bell-bowl supported on a six-ringed annulated knopped stem of graduated size and terminating in a basal knop, on a folded conical foot, circa 1720 -- 17cm. high
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Lot Essay

For other glasses of this type but slightly earlier, see 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 examples sold in our King Street Rooms, 11 December 2000, lot 68 and 15 June 1994, lot 50.

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