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Lot 45*

A rare mixed colour-twist wine glass, circa 1765

15 November 2017, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A rare mixed colour-twist wine glass, circa 1765

The ogee bowl with a small base moulded with flutes around the lower part, the 'mixed' stem containing a multiple-spiral air-twist cable enclosing an opaque white loose spiral thread and encircled by a translucent blue spiral thread, 14.8cm high (small resin-filled footrim chips)

Footnotes

Provenance
With Sheppard & Cooper Ltd, June 1993
Julius and Ann Kaplan Collection

Literature
Martine Newby, Eighteenth Century English Glass From the Collection of Julius and Ann Kaplan (1998), fig.32

An identical glass, presumably from the same set was in the A.C. Hubbard Jr. Collection sold by Bonhams 11 November 2011, lot 194. For a detail of the stem from a similar glass see John Sandon, Antique Glass (1999), p.88.

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