3 Jun 2009
10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street
Fine British & European Glass & Paperweights
Back to auction 16801
Fine British & European Glass & Paperweights
Back to auction 16801
A rare opaque-twist sweetmeat glass
Circa 1760.
The double-ogee bowl with folded rim and eight loops, each junction applied with a raspberry prunt, set on a double-series stem flanked by collars, over a folded domed foot, 15cm high (one loop restuck)
The double-ogee bowl with folded rim and eight loops, each junction applied with a raspberry prunt, set on a double-series stem flanked by collars, over a folded domed foot, 15cm high (one loop restuck)
Sold for
£1,440
inc. premium
Footnotes
- Provenance: Sotheby's, 1 November 1971, lot 205. For a very similar example see that illustrated by Sheppard and Smith (1990), p.49, pl.71 and another in the Cecil Higgins Museum, illustrated by Bickerton (1986), p.200, pl.581
Category: Decorative Arts / European Ceramics
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