THE BACCHUS GOBLET, the round funnel bowl engraved and polished with a youthful Bacchus holding a bunch of grapes and seated astride a wine-cask flanked by a basket of fruiting-vine and two scantily draped putti, one filling a glass from the cask, the other filling a glass from a decanter-jug held aloft in his left hand, the reverse with a branch of fruiting-vine between acanthus-leaf borders edged with a single line, supported on a ball knop above an hexagonal stem enclosing an elongated tear and domed foot, circa 1740-1750

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THE BACCHUS GOBLET, the round funnel bowl engraved and polished with a youthful Bacchus holding a bunch of grapes and seated astride a wine-cask flanked by a basket of fruiting-vine and two scantily draped putti, one filling a glass from the cask, the other filling a glass from a decanter-jug held aloft in his left hand, the reverse with a branch of fruiting-vine between acanthus-leaf borders edged with a single line, supported on a ball knop above an hexagonal stem enclosing an elongated tear and domed foot, circa 1740-1750
28cm. high

Provenance

Hamilton Clements, sale Sotheby's, 6 November 1930, lot 31
W.R. Hearst, sale Sotheby's, 6 March 1953, lot 25
Leslie Collection, sale Sotheby's, 22 June 1964, lot 111
Evill Collection, sale Sotheby's, 16 May 1966, lot 171

Literature

Francis Buckley, op. cit., pl. 20
L.M. Bickerton (1971), op. cit., nos. 701 and 702 and dust-cover
'Strange & Rare', Catalogue, 50th Anniversary Exhibition 1937-1987, The Glass Circle, p. 33, no. 115

Exhibited

Circle of Glass Collectors, Commemorative Exhibition 1937-1962, no. 196
Worthing Museum, 1968, no. 432
Broadfield House and Pilkington Museums, 1987-88, no. 115

Lot Essay

The present goblet, probably engraved by a German 'glass cutter' working in London during the second quarter of the 18th century and perhaps intended for presentation or ceremonial purposes, belongs to a small group of goblets, all of large proportion and with unusually heavy domed feet. For a covered goblet in the London Museum, see Francis Buckley, op. cit, pl. VII and for a cut goblet, also in the London Museum, see ibid., pl. XXIII

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