Lot Essay
Cf. L.M. Bickerton, Eighteenth Century Drinking Glasses (London, 1971), p. 256, no. 798 (for the first) and Victoria and Albert Museum, E.W. Colt Bequest, no. C694-1921 (for the second).
18TH CENTURY
Details
A 'bonnet' glass; a toasting-glass; and an opaque white teabowl
18TH CENTURY
The first with an ogee bowl and allover honeycomb-moulding beneath a blue line rim, on short rudimentary stem and with circular foot, 3¼ in. (8.3 cm.) high; A toasting-glass, of typical tall, flared drawn-trumpet form, 8 in. (20.3 cm.) high; and an opaque white fluted teabowl, with blue-line rim and applied rudimentary foot (3)
18TH CENTURY
The first with an ogee bowl and allover honeycomb-moulding beneath a blue line rim, on short rudimentary stem and with circular foot, 3¼ in. (8.3 cm.) high; A toasting-glass, of typical tall, flared drawn-trumpet form, 8 in. (20.3 cm.) high; and an opaque white fluted teabowl, with blue-line rim and applied rudimentary foot (3)
Provenance
The Collection of the Honorable Edward Granville Gore-Langton, Christie's King Street, 22nd April 1975, lot 113 (for the teabowl).
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