Lot 161
  • 161

An egg-knopped heavy-baluster wine glass circa 1710

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Description

  • 13.6cm., 5 3/8 in.
the short funnel bowl with teared solid base, set on a teared egg knop above a short section and folded conical foot

Provenance

with Alan Tillman Antiques, London, 1971
with Frederick Ahn, June 1984

Literature

Alan Tillman, catalogue, Summer 1971, no.7, fig.

Condition

The rim of the bowl has been reduced by at least 1cm; there is some typical minor scratching to the bowl.
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Catalogue Note

Compare with a similar example illustrated by Arthur Churchill, Glass Notes, no.11, December 1951, fig.39