AN ENGRAVED OPAQUE-TWIST WINE-GLASS
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AN ENGRAVED OPAQUE-TWIST WINE-GLASS

CIRCA 1765

已結束2010年12月16日

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GBP 1,750

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AN ENGRAVED OPAQUE-TWIST WINE-GLASS
CIRCA 1765
With bucket-shaped bowl, engraved with an apple tree, the reverse with a moth, on a spiral opaque-twist stem and spreading foot, slight footrim chipping
6¾ in. (17.2 cm.) high

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A similar wine-glass from the Hartshorne Collection is discussed in L.M. Bickerton, An Illustrated Guide to Eighteenth-Century English Drinking Glasses, London, 1971, no. 657 where the author suggests the engraving of an apple tree and a moth may be of Jacobite significance.