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Lot 66

A fine green and blue colour twist wine glass, circa 1765

19 November 2025, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

£1,000 - £1,500

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A fine green and blue colour twist wine glass, circa 1765

The slightly waisted bell bowl on a stem containing a multi-ply corkscrew edged with translucent cobalt-blue on one side and translucent emerald-green on the other, alternating with a pair of heavy opaque white spiral threads, over a conical foot, 16.7cm high

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Provenance
Christie's, 3 June 1986, lot 137
With Maureen Thompson, June 1986

A very similar glass from the Julius and Ann Kaplan Collection was sold by Bonhams on 15 November 2017, lot 48 and is illustrated by Martine Newby, Eighteenth Century English Glass from the Collection of Julius and Ann Kaplan (1998), fig.37. Compare also to the example from the Leuba Collection sold by Bonhams on 27 November 2024, lot 58.

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