A RARE PAIR OF VERTE-IMARI GOBLETS

CIRCA 1710

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A RARE PAIR OF VERTE-IMARI GOBLETS
Circa 1710
After an early 18th century European glass form, with conical bowl and short pedestal foot, painted with two colorful flowerhead mon between various blooming vines, all beneath a red and blue crosshatch border
5 1/8in. (13cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

D.S. Howard, A Tale of Three Cities, illustrates a goblet of this form and notes that although "...the East India merchants hoped that they might make serious inroads into the glass market" they did not succeed. A similar (but restored) goblet from the Mottahedeh collection was sold Sotheby's New York, 19 October 2000, lot 147 and another from the Benjamin F Edwards III collection was sold Christie's New York, 22 Janury 2002, lot 114

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