
John Sandon
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Provenance
Michael Parkington Collection
Christie's sale 13 February 1990, lot 134
Christie's sale 15 June 1994, lot 161
Julius and Ann Kaplan Collection
Literature
Christopher Sheppard and John Smith, From the Restoration to the Regency (1990), illustration on p.74
Martine Newby, Eighteenth Century English Glass From the Collection of Julius and Ann Kaplan (1998), fig 19
Only two other wine glasses are recorded with this extraordinary combination of bowl, stem and foot. One which is slightly smaller was in the Beves Collection and now in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, catalogue no.227b. The other was discovered in 2002 and sold at Sotheby's 18 December 2002, lot 109. This is now in the Durrington Collection, formerly exhibited at Broadfield House, see Roger Dodsworth's catalogue (2006), p.48, no.44.