English and European Ceramics and Glass - 13th October 2009
Lot 12
A pair of wine glasses
Estimate £300 - £500 | Hammer £2200
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Description
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.
