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Lot 124*

A rare opaque-twist wine glass with emerald-green tinted bowl and foot, circa 1765

30 November 2011, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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A rare opaque-twist wine glass with emerald-green tinted bowl and foot, circa 1765

The ogee bowl set on a multi-ply spiral stem with central swelling, conical foot, 15.2cm high

Footnotes

Provenance:
Sotheby's, 30 November 1999, lot 215

Literature:
Lloyd (2000), p.99, pl.146(b)

A similar glass was sold at Sotheby's, 13 June 1995, lot 80 (now in Kaplan Collection, no.20). At least six examples with this combination of bowl and foot are known (see Arthur Churchill 1955 Glass Notes 15, 5). There are further examples in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge and the Cinzano Collection (no.50, fig.126), while Delomosne illustrated another in their 1991 catalogue, no.5.

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