Jim Peake
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Lot 53*
A fine and rare Giles gilded facet stem wine glass, circa 1770
19 November 2025, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge£1,200 - £1,800
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A fine and rare Giles gilded facet stem wine glass, circa 1770
Of attractive small size, the round funnel bowl decorated with bucrania and paterae within entwined festoons of husk ornament, the rim gilt, on a diamond-faceted stem, the facets extending into the base of the bowl, over a conical foot, 9.7cm high
Footnotes
This celebrated pattern is described in the 1774 catalogue of Giles' stock as 'stags heads and pateras, with festoons, husks, etc...' and a similar design was used by the Giles workshop on Worcester porcelain. A Worcester cup and saucer with comparable decoration is illustrated alongside a decanter in opaque white glass by Stephen Hanscombe, James Giles China and Glass Painter (2005), no.127. Compare also to the white glass cruet bottles, decanter and tumbler illustrated by Delomosne and Son, Gilding the Lily (1978), pp.34-5, nos.47-49, the latter sold by Bonhams on 20 May 2015, lot 50.