Glass

The European Glass department is one of the largest of the international auction houses selling antique glass and paperweights, and are market leaders in British and European glass including Irish, Venetian and Bohemian. Bonhams is the only international auction house to hold dedicated auctions of glass, and has sold several notable collections especially of English and Dutch wine glasses.

Bonhams experts travel throughout Europe and America and specialist auctions achieve top prices for Venetian, Dutch, German, French, Spanish and British glass and paperweights.

Highlights from past auctions

Sold for £4,000 inc. premium
A Lalique 'Coquilles' opalescent dessert set
Sold for £109,250 inc. premium
The Prince William V Goblet. A highly important Beilby enamelled and gilt Royal armorial Goblet, circa 1766
Sold for £55,250 inc. premium
A façon de Venise diamond-point engraved, gilt and 'cold-painted' vase and cover, Court Glasshouse, Innsbruck or Venice, 1570-90
Sold for £133,250 inc. premium
A Nuremberg engraved goblet, signed by Georg Schwanhardt the Elder, circa 1630, on a silver-gilt mount by Friedrich Hillenbrandt, Nuremberg ...