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Lot 159

An early propeller-knopped wine glass, circa 1690

15 April 2025, 10:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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An early propeller-knopped wine glass, circa 1690

The waisted bell bowl with seven unusual pincered gadroons to the base, set on a collar above a rudimentary propeller stem with five pincered 'wings' and a small basal knop, on a folded conical foot, 13.7cm high

Footnotes

Provenance
Sotheby's, 25 May 1993, lot 28
Tatton Hewetson Collection, Bonhams, 13 November 2013, lot 2
With Marris Antiques, November 2013
Graham Slater Collection

A similar glass is illustrated by Francis Buckley, A History of Old English Glass (1925), pl.11b and by W A Thorpe, A History of English and Irish Glass (1929), pl.XXVII, no.1.

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