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Lot 68*

Two engraved opaque twist ratafia glasses, circa 1765

15 November 2017, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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Two engraved opaque twist ratafia glasses, circa 1765

Both with slender bowls moulded with fine flutes on the lower part and engraved with borders of stylised flowers, one with a stem set with a spiral gauze encircled by a pair of seven-ply spiral bands, 19.3cm high, the other with two pairs of entwined corkscrews in opaque white but with a slight pink tint, 19.3cm high (2)

Footnotes

Provenance
The former with Asprey's, November 1981, the latter Christie's sale 3 June 1996, lot 133
Julius and Ann Kaplan Collection

Literature
Martine Newby, Eighteenth Century English Glass From the Collection of Julius and Ann Kaplan (1998), figs.51 and 49

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