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Lot 64

A deceptive mercurial air twist cider glass, circa 1755

21 May 2014, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £1,187.50 inc. premium

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A deceptive mercurial air twist cider glass, circa 1755

The ogee bowl solid at the base, engraved with an apple branch border, set on a stem containing a pair of air corkscrew threads, over a conical foot, 16.4cm high (small chip to footrim)

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Provenance: The Commander A. P. Barrow-Green Collection

A cider glass with a very similar engraving, but of different shape, is illustrated by L. M. Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), p. 157, cat. 414. Another glass with similar engraving, but again of different shape, was sold in these rooms, 15 December 2010, lot 51.

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