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Lot 50

A green-tinted 'export' wine glass, circa 1750-70

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

£1,000 - £1,500

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A green-tinted 'export' wine glass, circa 1750-70

The pale green cup-shaped bowl of roemer type on a small, hollow cylindrical knop applied with three raspberry prunts, the domed foot also in green, the opaque twist stem in clear glass set with a multi-ply corkscrew, 15.7cm high (minute nick to footrim)

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Provenance: Peter Meyer Collection
With Maureen Thompson, 26 May 1977, purchased at Sotheby's 20 December 1976, lot 190

Exhibited: Chertsey Museum 1981-97

Similar glasses were in the Ron and Mary Thomas Collection and in the A C Hubbard Jr Collection, sold in these rooms 4 June 2008, lot 138 and 30 November 2011, lot 120

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