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Lot 192*

A very rare engraved colour-twist sweetmeat or drinking glass, circa 1765

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

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A very rare engraved colour-twist sweetmeat or drinking glass, circa 1765

The pan-topped round funnel bowl with everted rim decorated with a leaf garland, set on a stem with an opaque-white gauze corkscrew entwined by a pair of parallel cobalt-blue threads, flanked by triple collars over a domed foot with folded rim, 19cm high

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Literature:
Lloyd (2000), p.60, pl.80 and p.61

Only one other example of a colour-twist sweetmeat glass is known, in the Rees-Price Collection at the V&A, London, illustrated by Joseph Bles, Rare English Glasses of the XVII & XVIII Centuries, (1924), pl.1. It is also engraved and has blue threads to the stem. Both sweetmeat glasses bear strong similarities with other singular colour-twist objects such as the Stout Candlestick, sold in these Rooms, 16 December 2009, lot 7 and the Applewhaite-Abbott Candlestick , sold at Sotheby's, 24 November 1986, lot 146.

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