A pair of wine glasses

A pair of wine glasses, the bucket-shaped bowls each engraved with a fruiting tree between two butterflies, raised on double-series opaque twist stems, c.1765, 17cm. (2) Provenance: From the collection formerly at Hinton House, Hinton Charterhouse and thence by descent. Cf. L. M. Bickerton, An Illustrated Guide to Eighteenth Century Drinking Glasses, pl.657 for a similar example.