Jim Peake
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Lot 69
An exceptional canary-yellow colour twist wine glass, circa 1765
19 November 2025, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge£6,000 - £9,000
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An exceptional canary-yellow colour twist wine glass, circa 1765
The round funnel bowl with honeycomb moulding, on a stem containing a pair of opaque white spiral gauzes around a central undulating opaque bright yellow spiral core, over a conical foot, 15cm high
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Provenance
With Maureen Thompson, July 1988
The canary-yellow thread is the rarest of all colour twist types and it is exceptionally rare to find an example with honeycomb moulding such as this. A glass with a honeycomb-moulded ogee bowl on an identical stem is illustrated by Derek Davis and Keith Middlemas, Coloured Glass (1968), p.37 and was sold by Bonhams as part of the Peter Meyer Collection on 1 May 2013, lot 58. A different canary-yellow colour twist glass from the Leuba Collection was sold by Bonhams on 27 November 2024, lot 61. See also the example from the Durrington Collection sold by Bonhams on 15 November 2023, lot 58, and the remarkable canary-yellow colour twist goblet sold on 20 June 2023, lot 122.