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The Leuba Collection of 18th Century English Glass
Lot 99*

A fine and rare tartan colour twist wine glass, circa 1765

27 November 2024, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A fine and rare tartan colour twist wine glass, circa 1765

The round funnel bowl on a stem containing four alternating pairs of spiral threads in translucent blue, translucent red, translucent green, and opaque white, around a single central opaque white spiral thread, over a conical foot, 15cm high

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Provenance
With Delomosne and Son, 12 July 1984
Leuba Collection

A virtually identical glass, but with an unusual single-series stem, was sold by Bonhams on 13 December 2023, lot 170. It is illustrated in Asprey's exhibition catalogue, 100 British Glasses (1985), pp.24-5, no.34 and also by L M Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), p.235, no.719.

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