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Lot 112

Two engraved airtwist cordial glasses, circa 1750

1 December 2021, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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Two engraved airtwist cordial glasses, circa 1750

The round funnel bowls with solid bases, engraved with stylised floral sprays, set on tall double-series stems containing a pair of mercurial corkscrews encircled by alternating five-ply and six-ply spiral bands, over conical feet, the bowl of the taller glass lightly moulded with basal flutes, 16.5cm and 16.1cm high (2)

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Provenance
Sotheby's sale, 5 October 1993, lot 136 (shortest)
With Delomosne and Son, 1993 (shortest)
With Delomosne and Son, 2012 (tallest)

A virtually identical cordial to the shorter example is illustrated by E M Elville, The Collector's Dictionary of Glass (1961), fig.77.

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