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Lot 80

An early English brown glass small mug, circa 1700

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

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An early English brown glass small mug, circa 1700

Of simple baluster form with an everted rim and a trailed S-scroll handle, applied around the base with opaque-white cabling, the rim with a trailed band of fine threads also in white, slight kick-in base, 6.3cm high

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Provenance: Peter Meyer Collection
The Ron and Mary Thomas Collection, Bath, sold in these rooms 4 June 2008, lot 271

For a very similar brown glass jug with trailed and combed white loops attributed to England, late 17th century, see the example in the Corning Museum of Glass, illustrated by Dwight Lanmon and David Whitehouse, Glass in the Robert Lehman Collection (1993), p.112, fig.38.2. For a discussion of these rare brown glass pieces see Robert Charleston, English Glass (1984), p.133

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