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Lot 58

A canary yellow colour twist wine glass, circa 1765

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

Sold for £15,000 inc. premium

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A canary yellow colour twist wine glass, circa 1765

The ogee bowl moulded all over with a well-controlled diaper or hammered texture, the colour twist stem with a central deep yellow core encircled by a pair of opaque white spiral gauzes, 15.1cm high

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Provenance: Peter Meyer Collection
Sotheby's, 3 December 1979, lot 91, bought by Maureen Thompson

Exhibited: Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1983-94
Glass Circle Diamond Jubilee Exhibition, 1997, no.103

Literature: illustrated by Derek Davis and Keith Middlemas, Coloured Glass (1968), p.37

Canary yellow stems are the rarest and most desirable of the colour twists. The combination here of a yellow stem and a moulded bowl is exceptional

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