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Lot 66*

An engraved 'Liberty' airtwist wine glass, circa 1750

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

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An engraved 'Liberty' airtwist wine glass, circa 1750

The ogee bowl decorated with the white Horse of Hanover, LIBERTY in a ribbon above, the reverse with a polished heraldic rose and bud, set on a multi-spiral stem and conical foot, 16.8cm high

Footnotes

Provenance:
Anon., sale, Sotheby's, 10 May 1971, lot 143 where it is described as one of a pair

Literature:
L.M.Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), p.287, pl.915
Arthur Churchill Ltd., History in Glass (1937), p.15, pl.15, no.66 where it states that the bowl was formerly gilt
Lloyd (2000), p.125, pl.197(b)

The pair to the present lot was sold at Sotheby's, 21 November 2006, lot 66 and again in these Rooms, 3 June 2009, lot 194, the Roy J.Tutty Collection.

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