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Lot 98

An unusual moulded 'ladder' wine glass, circa 1755

15 November 2017, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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An unusual moulded 'ladder' wine glass, circa 1755

The lipped ogee bowl and the conical foot both with distinctive ladder moulding, set on a double-series airtwist stem with a twelve-ply spiral band around a central thread, 15.6cm high (resin repair to the foot rim)

Footnotes

Provenance
Seton Veitch Collection

Literature
Delomosne & Son Ltd, The Seton Veitch Collection of Early English Drinking Glasses (2006), pl.41b

An example of this very rare type was in the A.C. Hubbard Jr. Collection, sold by Bonhams 30 November 2011, lot 101. Another is in the Baltimore Historical Society, while an example with an opaque-twist stem is in the Corning Museum of Glass.

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