The round funnel bowl with a solid base set on a collar above a hollow bulb applied with eight small raspberry prunts and enclosing a Charles II silver fourpence coin dated 1679, on another collar over a true baluster section, on a slightly domed folded foot, 16.8cm high

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Provenance
James Hall Collection
Bonhams sale 17 December 2008, lot 80
British private collection

This glass belongs to a distinctive group of coin goblets made during the first decades of the 18th century, the stems incorporating bulbs applied with varying numbers of raspberry prunts. The coins are frequently earlier in date than the shape of glass would suggest and the use of raspberry prunts also harks back to 17th century traditions.

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A baluster coin goblet, circa 1700, containing a Charles II fourpence of 1679

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