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Lot 20*

A rare baluster wine glass, circa 1720

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

£3,000 - £5,000

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A rare baluster wine glass, circa 1720

The waisted bell bowl with solid base set on a seven-ringed annulated knop of graduated size with basal knop, on a folded conical foot, 15.6cm high

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Provenance:
The Graeme and Molly Cranch Collection, sold at Christie's, 17 November 1992, lot 139
Anon., sale, Christie's, 29 June 1993, lot 144
Anon., sale, Christie's, 11 December 2000, lot 68

Compare with the example illustrated by W.A. Thorpe, A History of English and Irish Glass (1929), pl.LXXXVIII (3); also 'Strange and Rare', Catalogue, 50th Anniversary Exhibition 1937-1987, The Glass Circle, p.15, no.34; L.M. Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), no.77 and the further example sold at Christie's, 15 June 1994, lot 50.

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