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Lot 120

An opaque twist sweetmeat and a wine glass, circa 1760-65

1 December 2021, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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An opaque twist sweetmeat and a wine glass, circa 1760-65

The sweetmeat glass with a double ogee bowl with a pincered or dentated rim, set on a double collar and single-series stem enclosing a gauze corkscrew, over a folded conical foot, 17.5cm high, the wine glass with a panel-moulded ogee bowl, above a double-series stem with two pairs of spiral threads around a central gauze column, over a conical foot, 15.5cm high (2)

Footnotes

Provenance
Sotheby's sale, 16 February 1981, lot 60 (sweetmeat)
S V D D Jones Collection, Christie's sale, 7 June 1988, lot 175 (sweetmeat)
Whittle Collection, Bonhams sale, 3 June 2009, lot 129 (sweetmeat)
With Christopher Sheppard, 1 December 2011 (sweetmeat)
With Jeanette Hayhurst, 2005 (wine glass)
Graham Vivian Collection

Exhibited
Glass Circle Diamond Jubilee exhibition, 1997, no.143 (sweetmeat)

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