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Lot 43

A Jacobite engraved opaque-twist ratafia glass, circa 1765

1 May 2013, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £625 inc. premium

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A Jacobite engraved opaque-twist ratafia glass, circa 1765

The very narrow funnel bowl engraved with a six-petalled rose on a thorny stem with a closed bud and a half-open bud, the reverse with a butterfly, on a double series opaque twist stem with two pairs of spiral threads outside of a gauze, 18.6cm high

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Provenance: Peter Meyer Collection
J W G Thomas Collection, sold at Sotheby's 11 May 1961, lot 89
Walter F Smith Collection, sold at Sotheby's 4 December 1967, lot 224
Sotheby's 6 March 1987, lot 102, bought by Maureen Thompson

Literature: Illustrated by Thorpe, History of English and Irish Glass, fig.20b

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