Lot 130
  • 130

A rare coin water-glass and five assorted drinking glasses circa 1730 and later

Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Description

  • the first 11cm., 4¼in.
the first inset with a silver George II Maundy twopence of indecipherable date in the base, the lower section of the bowl with nipt-diamond-waies, the rim with spiral trail, together with a pedestal-stem goblet, a composite-stem wine glass and three facet-stem wine glasses, one engraved with neo-classical decoration in the manner of James Giles

Provenance

The first from the Sir John S.Risley Collection and then the Peter Lazarus Collection, Bristol

Literature

The water glass illustrated W.Thorpe, A History of English and Irish Glass, pl.CIX