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The Leuba Collection of 18th Century English Glass
Lot 93*

A rare blue colour twist firing or dram glass, circa 1770

27 November 2024, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A rare blue colour twist firing or dram glass, circa 1770

The ovoid bowl set on a double-series stem with an unusual opaque white solid tubular corkscrew edged in translucent blue, encircled by a seven-ply spiral band comprising five fine white threads flanked by a pair of heavier threads, over a heavy conical foot, 9.9cm high

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Provenance
Sotheby's, 25 May 1993, lot 52
With Delomosne and Son, 9 June 1993
Leuba Collection

Only a small number of firing glasses with colour twist stems are recorded, most with trumpet bowls. An identical glass from the Julius and Ann Kaplan Collection was sold by Bonhams on 15 November 2017, lot 55 and another by Bonhams on 20 June 2023, lot 113, both with the same unusual tubular corkscrew.

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