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Lot 97

A good set of six engraved firing glasses, circa 1770-80

18 May 2016, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

£3,000 - £4,000

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A good set of six engraved firing glasses, circa 1770-80

The round funnel bowls engraved with landscapes, including one with a fox and the rising sun, one with a leaping dog by two cottages, various farm buildings and an owl on a tree stump, on diamond faceted stems and unusual heavy petal-cut firing feet, 14.9cm high (one bowl chipped) (6)

Footnotes

Provenance:
Frances Dickson (Mrs W.D.Dickson) Collection
Sold by Sotheby's 26 July 1965
John De Tscharner Vischer Collection

Literature:
This was originally a larger set owned by Mrs Frances Dickson. Two glasses from the present lot are illustrated by W.A Thorpe, Irish and English Glass, plate CXXII (top).

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