
John Sandon
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Provenance: Peter Meyer Collection
R.Helyar, Esq., Sotheby's, 12 February 1979, lot 78
With Maureen Thompson, 21 September 1979
Exhibited: Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1983-94
A very similar glass was in the Ron and Mary Thomas Collection, sold in these rooms 4 June 2008, lot 17. Another, inscribed 'God Save King George' was in the Albert Hartshorne Collection, sold in these rooms 15 December 2010, lot 7. This interesting group of pro-Hanoverian glasses with moulded stems featuring inscriptions to King George can be shown to date to the early years of George I's reign, see Glass Circle News no.109, 2006, pp.12-13.