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Lot 90

A Giles gilded opaque twist wine glass, circa 1765

15 November 2017, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A Giles gilded opaque twist wine glass, circa 1765

The round funnel bowl gilded with a so-called 'Grubbe' border of trellis and scrolls and scattered sprigs and an insect, the opaque twist stem with a ribbed corkscrew encircled by a pair of spiral tapes, 15.3cm high

Footnotes

Provenance
Seton Veitch Collection

Literature
Delomosne & Son Ltd, The Seton Veitch Collection of Early English Drinking Glasses (2006), pl.46a

This glass features a so-called 'Grubbe Border', linking this to a series of Worcester plates with distinctive decoration added in the Giles workshop. A matching opaque twist glass goblet was exhibited in the Stockspring Exhibition, James Giles China and Glass Painter (2005), pl.124.

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