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Click here to subscribeA SILVER TWIN HANDLED BOWL AND A SILVER MOUNTED FACETED GLASS CLARET JUG (2)The circular bowl presentation inscribed, London 1940, diameter excluding handles 10.3cm, weight 109 gms, the claret jug London 1896, height 24.5cm Provenance The Estate of the late Professor Jonathan & Mrs Deanna Brostoff, (See Bellmans website article for further details)
A GROUP OF FIVE WINE GLASSES (5)18th century Comprising; and opaque twist glass with rounded funnel bowl; a facet stemmed glass and three plain stemmed wine glassesThe opaque twist glass has a minor internal fracture to the footrim.The plain stemmed glasses with the rounded funnel bowl has a very small chip to the top rim.The plain stemmed glass with a bell bowl has two rim chips
TWO OPAQUE TWIST WINE GLASSES (2)Circa 1765 Each with a double series opaque twist stem, one with ogee bowl engraved with fruiting vine, the other with a hammered rounded funnel bowl, 14.75cm and 14.5cm highThe first glass with a shallow chip to the footrim. The second glass with a chip and small fracture to the footrim
A 1930's uranium green glass table centre by Jobling with semi clad female floral decoration. The pedestal base of the figure has a significant crack from foot to hole; it also is a different colour green to the figure and bowl, otherwise ok.WE TAKE GREAT CARE in the accuracy of our condition reports and may record damage and restoration if obvious. The information is provided in good faith along with detailed photographs where requested and is for guidance only. However, this does not imply that there may not be further condition issues associated with the lot and we DO NOT provide any guarantee to the buyer.WE STRONGLY ADVISE BIDDERS TO EXAMINE PERSONALLY ANY LOT THEY ARE INTERESTED IN BEFORE THE AUCTION.
A baluster wine glass, circa 1720-25The waisted bell bowl with a solid base containing a small tear, the stem with a central triple-annulated knop set between plain sections, over a teared basal knop and folded domed foot, 15.6cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceWith Christine Bridge Antiques, 18 August 1995A glass of similar form is illustrated by L M Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), p.92, no.161.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
An engraved opaque twist wine glass of possible Jacobite significance, circa 1765The bell bowl with a six-petalled rose on a leafy stem, the reverse with a large moth in flight, on a shoulder-knopped double-series stem containing a pair of heavy opaque white spiral tapes outside of a multi-ply corkscrew, over a conical foot, 17.6cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceJerome Shaw Collection, New York, Phillips, 15 December 1999, lot 286For another glass with very similar engraving, probably by the same hand, see that sold by Bonhams on 20 November 2019, lot 43.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A baluster wine glass, circa 1725-30The pointed round funnel bowl with a solid teared base, resting on a half knop, the stem with a wide triple-annulated knop above an inverted baluster containing a tear, over a small basal knop and folded conical foot, 16.4cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceWith Gabor Cossa Antiques, 21 December 1990A very similar but slightly larger glass from the Patrick and Mavis Walker Collection was sold by Bonhams on 1 December 2021, lot 82.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A good baluster sweetmeat glass, circa 1730The panel-moulded lipped double ogee bowl resting on a double collar, the stem with an upper triple-annulated knop above a teared inverted baluster terminating in a basal knop, over a panel-moulded folded domed foot, 17cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceTerence C Woodfield CollectionChris Crabtree CollectionFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
An unusual Jacobite engraved opaque twist wine glass, circa 1760The slightly flared bucket bowl engraved with a distinctive multi-petalled rose on a thorny stem with one closed bud, the reverse with a thistle, on a single-series stem enclosing a pair of opaque white gauze corkscrews, over a conical foot, 15.6cm highFootnotes:An opaque twist glass of very similar form engraved with a rose spray and thistle in identical style is illustrated by Geoffrey B Seddon, The Jacobites and their Drinking Glasses (1995), p.89, pl.25. Another was sold by Bonhams Edinburgh on 15 October 2021, lot 201.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A very rare Jacobite engraved colour twist wine glass, circa 1765The bell bowl with a six-petalled rose on a thorny stem with two buds, one closed and one open, the reverse with a moth in flight, on a stem containing an multi-ply corkscrew edged with translucent cobalt-blue on one side and translucent emerald-green on the other, alternating with a pair of heavy opaque white spiral threads, over a conical foot, 15.4cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceJoseph Bles CollectionSotheby's, 6 March 1984, lot 120Private London CollectionAccording to Geoffrey B Seddon, The Jacobites and their Drinking Glasses (1995), the decoration on this glass may be attributed to Engraver F in the author's nomenclature. Of the thirteen glasses attributed to this engraver by Seddon, three are colour twists. Similar glasses, perhaps from the same original set, were sold by Sotheby's on 7 March 1977, lot 155 and 15 November 1994, lot 492. An example by this engraver from the Basil Jefferies Collection but with a different colour twist stem was sold by Bonhams on 20 November 2019, lot 84.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Dutch engraved armorial light baluster wine glass, circa 1750The generous round funnel bowl slightly flared at the rim, decorated with the crowned arms of Wiskerke flanked by lion supporters, resting on a foliate scrollwork bracket, the reverse with a tiny sprig concealing a bubble, on a stem with an annular shoulder knop set between half-knops above a slender true baluster, terminating in a small basal knop, over a conical foot, 19.1cm highFootnotes:The origin of the arms is unknown, but they existed in the 17th century associated with the Wiskerke family. They are most likely for the Lords of Wiskerke and it is possible that the family took the arms from the village and Estate of Wiskerke in Zeeland, Netherlands. The arms were later used by the serjeanty of Wiskerke from 1819, and a variation with ground added to the lower grapevine was granted to the hamlet of Wissekerke in Zeeland in 1817.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Jacobite engraved opaque twist wine glass, circa 1760The round funnel bowl with a six-petalled rose on a thorny, leafy stem with one closed bud, the reverse with a moth in flight, on a double-series stem with a fifteen-ply spiral band around a pair of heavy opaque white corkscrew tapes, over a conical foot, 15.7cm highFootnotes:According to Geoffrey B Seddon, The Jacobites and their Drinking Glasses (1995), the engraving might be attributable to wither Engraver A or B in the author's nomenclature.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
An opaque twist wine glass and three airtwist glasses, circa 1750-65The first with a round funnel bowl on a stem containing two pairs of opaque white spiral tapes within a pair of four-ply spiral bands, 15.1cm high, together with an airtwist goblet with a generous round funnel bowl on stem containing a multi-ply corkscrew, 19.6cm high, a cordial with a round funnel bowl on a tall stem containing two pairs of air threads around a central mercurial column, 17.5cm high, and an ale flute with a tall drawn trumpet bowl on a multi-spiral stem, 19.9cm high (4)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A very rare façon de Venise serpent-stemmed winged wine glass, 17th centuryThe generous conical bowl on a wide collar, the elaborate stem formed from an entwined rope containing opaque white spiral threads, with finely pincered 'wings' on either side in bright transparent turquoise glass, all raised on a plain stem section with a basal knop above a delicate plain conical foot, 26.6cm highFootnotes:ProvenancePrivate British Collection, Bonhams, 1 December 2021, lot 3Chris Crabtree CollectionThese so-called vetri a serpenti, or 'serpent glasses', epitomise the glassmaking virtuosity of the Baroque era and the fascination with the grotesque. Whilst serpent stems have their origins in Venice, those with flattened coiled stems formed of ropes of glass in arrangements such as this applied with pincered ornament are of a distinctive type known to have developed in the Low Countries, where they were produced in two broad sizes. The present lot is in the larger size. A very similar glass in the Kunstgewerbemuseum, Cologne, is illustrated by Brigitte Klesse in the catalogue, Glas (1963), p.108, no.218.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Three various wine glasses, circa 1740-50Comprising a balustroid glass, the drawn trumpet bowl with a solid teared base, on a teared inverted baluster stem and conical foot, 16.6cm high, a moulded-stem glass with a tall, slightly waisted bell bowl on an eight-sided pedestal stem containing an elongated tear, over a folded conical foot, 19cm high, the last with a drawn trumpet bowl engraved with a band of fruiting vine below the rim, on a plain stem and conical foot, 17.5cm high (3)Footnotes:ProvenanceBonhams, 23 June 2021, lot 13 (balustroid)Chris Crabtree CollectionFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A rare heavy baluster glass, circa 1715The waisted bell bowl with a solid base containing a tear, on a stem with a wide angular drop knop and teared baluster drop knop, over a folded domed foot, 15.8cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceWith Christine Bridge Antiques, 17 June 1995The unusual combination of drop and ball knops is particularly attractive. A very similar glass is illustrated by L M Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), p.88, no.146. A glass from the Patrick and Mavis Walker Collection with a similar stem formation was sold by Bonhams on21 June 2022, lot 54.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A very rare blue colour twist firing glass, circa 1770The ovoid bowl set on a double-series stem with an unusual opaque white solid tubular corkscrew edged in translucent blue, encircled by a seven-ply spiral band comprising five fine white threads flanked by a pair of heavier threads, over a heavy conical foot, 9.9cm highFootnotes:ProvenancePrivate London CollectionOnly a small number of firing glasses with colour twist stems are recorded, most with trumpet bowls. An identical glass from the Julius and Ann Kaplan Collection was sold by Bonhams on 15 November 2017, lot 55 with the same unusual tubular corkscrew.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A miniature opaque twist cordial glass and a miniature baluster sweetmeat glass, mid-18th centuryOf very attractive small size, the first with a drawn trumpet bowl on a double-series stem enclosing a pair of heavy opaque white spiral threads around a central gauze column, over a conical foot, 10.4cm high, the other with a panel-moulded lipped bowl, the stem with central opposing baluster knops and terminating in a small basal knop, over a panel-moulded domed foot, 7.6cm high (2)Footnotes:For miniature opaque twist cordial glasses of different form see Ward Lloyd, A Wine Lover's Glasses (2000), p.48, pl.55.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Dutch stipple-engraved opaque twist wine glass, circa 1760Perhaps by J Wolff, the round funnel bowl delicately engraved with a semi-nude putto, perhaps Cupid, a single rose raised in his left hand and a bunch of three roses in his right, his cloak billowing behind him, on a double-series stem with two pairs of opaque white threads around a central gauze column, over a conical foot, 13.8cm highFootnotes:This glass is not recorded by Frans Smit in his catalogue, Uniquely Dutch Eighteenth-Century Dutch Stipple-Engravings on Glass (1993), but the charmingly naïve style of the engraving suggests that it may be by J Wolff. Compare to lots 101 and 102 in this sale and see the footnote to lot 102 for a commentary on J Wolff's distinctive style of engraving.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A large baluster wine glass, circa 1720-30The waisted bell bowl with a solid base, on a stem comprising two graduated drop knops, the lower containing a tear, over a folded domed foot, 19.7cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceWith Christine Bridge Antiques, 17 June 1995A goblet of related form from the Basil Jefferies Collection was sold by Bonhams on 12 November 2014, lot 28.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
The Dreadnought: a rare engraved Privateer wine glass, circa 1757-58 The bucket bowl engraved with the three-masted ship in sail, inscribed 'Success to the DREADNOUGHT Privateer,' below the rim, on a single-series opaque twist stem containing a multi-ply corkscrew edged with a pair of heavy opaque white threads, over a conical foot, the stem repaired with a silver sleeve, 15.5cm high Footnotes: Provenance Peter Lazarus Collection Terence C Woodfield Collection Chris Crabtree Collection Literature Cleo Witt, Introducing Bristol Glass (1984), p.29 Cleo Witt, Cyril Weeden and Arlene Palmer Schwind, Bristol Glass (1984), p.42 Exhibited The Bristol and West Building, Broad Quay, June-July 1984 The Dreadnought was a Bristol ship of 130 tons with 12 guns, 12 swivels and a crew of 120 men, owned by Bristol merchants John Harbord, Jonah Thomas, Samuel Thomas and William Wasbrough. She was first declared on 22 March 1757 by Captain James Leisman, on 16 March 1758 by Captain Richard Fitzherbert, on 29 August that year by Captain Joseph English, then again on 10 April 1762 by Captain George Burford, see J W Damer Powell, Bristol Privateers and Ships of War (1930), pp.200-1. A diary written by the ship's unnamed surgeon during a four-month cruise in 1757 under the captaincy of Leisman in the Bristol Archives details life on board, including the capture of the Lyon, a French ship travelling from St. Domingo to Bordeaux. The dreadnought captured several foreign vessels. Perhaps her greatest success, as noted in Berrow's Worcester Journal in August 1757, was the capture of 'the Marquis de Conflans, from St. Domingo to Rochelle. She mounts 20 Guns, and engag'd the Dreadnought three Hours. This Prize is reckon'd worth between £20,000 and £30,000'. Lloyd's List describes this ship as being '300 Tons, 12 Guns and 30 Men, loaded with about 160 Hhds of fine, and 160 of brown Sugar, about 170 Hhds of Coffee, 12 Casks of Indigo, 4 Bags of Cotton, & a small Quantity of Tortoiseshell'. An identical glass, presumably from the same original set, is in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge (inv. no.C.523-1961), illustrated in the catalogue (1978), p.105, no.269a. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Dutch engraved light baluster 'Friendship' wine glass, circa 1740-50The round funnel bowl finely engraved with a pair of hands with large frilled cuffs, clasped beneath a radiant sun, above the inscription 'VRINTSCHAP', all within tied floral fronds, the rim with a formal zigzag border, on a multi-knopped stem with a central beaded knop set between balusters flanked by shoulder and basal knops, over a domed foot, 18.4cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceChris Crabtree CollectionA glass of identical form with very similar engraving, including the same inscription and border to the rim, is illustrated and discussed by Anna Laméris, Amicitiae: A Toast to Friendship (2018), pp.26-7, no.7. Together with the present lot, this belongs to a distinct group of glasses by an unknown Rotterdam engraver also responsible for a marriage goblet commemorating Montauban van Swijndregt, illustrated by Nora Schadee, Met rad en Diamant (1989), pp.25 and 72-3, no.95.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Mickleden, Great Langdale: A stipple engraved goblet by Simon Whistler, dated 1986The glass by Whitefriars, the generous ovoid bowl finely decorated with a view of the uninhabited valley at the head of Great Langdale, looking west, the Langdale Pikes just visible to the right, resting on a collar above a stem comprised of a solid ball knop, the spreading foot inscribed with the title, The pontil dated and monogrammed 'SW', 15.3cm high, sold together with the original glazed mahogany electrified display cabinet made by E NorwoodFootnotes:ProvenanceDr Colin and Mrs Sue Wilson CollectionLiteratureSimon Whistler, On a Glass Lightly (2004), p.64 (wrongly dated 1985)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ARAR Goods subject to Artists Resale Right Additional Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A good Dutch engraved light baluster 'Friendship' wine glass, circa 1750The round funnel bowl decorated with a pair of clasped hands with large, frilled cuffs beneath the inscription 'VRINTSCHAP', all within an elaborate rococo scroll and foliate cartouche, set on a cushion knop and wide blade knop above a swelling stem section containing an elongated tear between knops, over a folded conical foot, 20cm highFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A moulded-stem wine glass, circa 1720-30The conical bowl with a solid base, on an eight-sided stem enclosing an elongated tear and with a basal collar, over a folded conical foot, 16.3cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceWith Gabor Cossa Antiques, 24 September 1988For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A very rare Dutch stipple-engraved light baluster goblet by J Wolff, circa 1760The round funnel bowl with a slightly flared rim, finely decorated with a man seated at one end of a bench playing a lute, an elegantly dressed lady seated at the other with an open book on her lap, between them a jug and two glass flutes before a vase of flowers, a dog seated on a chequered floor at their feet looking up towards her, the slender stem with a central knop between opposing solid balusters, over a domed foot, 22.4cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceLempertz, Cologne, 12 June 1958, lot 827Walter F Smith Collection, Sotheby's, 18 March 1968, lot 416Anthony Waugh Collection, Sotheby's, 28 April 1980, lot 210Sotheby's, 24 November 1986, lot 56Sotheby's, 30 November 1999, lot 201Chris Crabtree CollectionLiteratureF G A M Smit, 'Punktierbilder auf Glas: Holländische Meister des Gestippten Glases im 18. Jahrhundert', Weltkunst 52(19) (1982), pp.2620-4F G A M Smit, Uniquely Dutch Eighteenth-Century Stipple-Engravings on Glass (1993), p.147, no.Eb.26Exhibited300 Years of British Glass 1675-1975, Wolverhampton Art Gallery and Museum, 14 June 1975, no.210The present glass is one of just twenty glasses by this unknown engraver recorded by Smit. Two more can be added to this oeuvre, including a goblet sold by Bonhams on 21 June 2022, lot 132 and lot 101 in this sale. For an overview of J Wolff's identity and technique, see the footnotes to these lots.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A fine baluster wine glass, circa 1720-25Of attractive small size, the round funnel bowl with a heavy solid base containing a small tear, the stem with an opposing pair of teared balusters separated by a central cushion knop, over a folded domed foot, 14.5cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceWith Asprey's, Grosvenor House Fair, 19 June 1984Tatton Hewetson Collection, Bonhams, 13 November 2013, lot 5A very similar glass is illustrated by Delomosne and Son, The Seton Veitch Collection (2006), no.10d and was sold as part of the Patrick and Mavis Walker Collection by Bonhams on 1 December 2021, lot 77. Compare also to that from the James Hall Collection sold by Bonhams on 17 December 2008, lot 44.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
An engraved airtwist wine glass, circa 1750The bucket bowl with a floral specimen with two flowers, perhaps a tulip, the reverse with a spray of Lily of the Valley, on a multi-spiral stem with shoulder and central knops, over a conical foot, 14.7cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceJerome Shaw Collection, New York, Phillips, 15 December 1999, lot 293For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A fine and rare Dutch stipple-engraved light baluster wine glass by J Wolff, circa 1760 The round funnel bowl delicately engraved with an almost continuous landscape scene depicting falconry, an moustached gentleman standing before a seated lady, he with a sword by his side and she holding an open book in her lap, a boy holding a crossbow standing before them, an elaborately dressed gentleman standing to his left with a falcon perched on his left arm, holding his dog by a lead behind him, a man on horseback releasing another falcon in the distance, all before a clifftop castle and beneath a flock of birds in flight, the stem with angular and cushion knops above a beaded inverted baluster terminating in a basal knop, over a conical foot, 17.5cm high Footnotes: Provenance S J Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 27 February 1968, lot 1578 The identity of J Wolff is unknown, but if he was a relative of the renowned master engraver David Wolff it can only be his brother Jacob, born in 1742, see Frans Smit, Dutch Eighteenth-Century Dutch Stipple-Engravings on Glass (1993), p.17. A total of just twenty glasses by this engraver are recorded by Smit, including two bearing the signature 'J Wolff', one of which is dated 1780. J Wolff stippled in a very distinctive style with backgrounds often sparsely dotted and darker objects frequently left almost devoid of stippling, instead delineated by outlines. The style of the engraving on the present lot is therefore characteristic of this engraver. He specialised in depictions of country folk and rural life, particularly tavern scenes. The present lot is unrecorded by Smit and therefore represents an important addition to this artist's oeuvre. Two examples with related outdoor scenes depicting various spectators watching the ascent of a hot air balloon are recorded by Smit (1993), p.156, nos.Ec.3 and Ec.4. For a goblet with a tavern scene by J Wolff, see that sold by Bonhams on 21 June 2022, lot 132. This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: * * VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A good green and red colour twist wine glass, circa 1765The round funnel bowl on a stem containing three central heavy opaque white corkscrew threads, two edged in translucent jade-green and one in translucent ruby-red, alternating with three opaque white spiral threads, over a conical foot, 14.4cm highFootnotes:ProvenancePrivate London CollectionFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Eight interesting miniature wine glasses, 18th and early 19th centuryAll of attractive small size, comprising a miniature firing glass with an ogee bowl on a heavy plain stem and spreading foot, a baluster glass with a bell bowl on a stem with a central ball knop, a plain-stemmed glass with a conical bowl, a glass with a bell bowl resting on a heavy knop and solid conical foot, two facet-stem glasses and two gin glasses on capstan stems with central blade knops, tallest 7.7cm high (8)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A rare blue mixed colour twist wine glass, circa 1765the generous bell bowl on a stem with an airtwist gauze corkscrew entwined with a heavy translucent cobalt-blue spiral thread, over a conical foot, 17.8cm highFootnotes:ProvenancePrivate London CollectionA virtually identical glass to the present lot was sold by Bonhams as part of the James Hall Collection on 4 June 2008, lot 168 and again on 2 May 2018, lot 127. They belong to a series of glasses with bell bowls, most of which are distinctively engraved with single animals or botanical flowers and are discussed by Delomosne and Son, The Seton Veitch Collection (2006), no.43, who suggest a Low Countries origin for the engraving. The stems all combine an airtwist corkscrew with a single coloured thread typically in blue or green.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A good moulded-stem sweetmeat glass, circa 1740The double ogee bowl with an everted dentated rim, resting on a merese, above an eight-sided pedestal stem with four collars at the base, over a domed foot, 15.4cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceWalter F Smith Collection, Sotheby's, 4 December 1967, lot 279Terence C Woodfield CollectionChris Crabtree CollectionLiteratureDan Klein and Ward Lloyd, The History of Glass (1984), p.128For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
An exceptionally rare Venetian or façon de Venise latticinio goblet, late 16th centuryDecorated in vetro a fili and vetro a retorti, the bowl of generous thistle shape with an everted rim, a pair of horizontal latticinio bands to the centre with opaque white twists distinctively sandwiched between white threads, the base with fifteen vertical latticinio ribs in high relief, on a collar above a hollow stem moulded with two lion masks flanked by florets all between gadrooned borders, traces of gilding remaining, terminating in a bulbous basal merese, over a small conical foot neatly folded at the footrim, 15.5cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceF Bodenheim Collection, AmsterdamKrug Collection, Sotheby's, 7 July 1981, lot 50LiteratureBrigitte Klesse, Glassammlung Helfried Krug (1965), pp.138-9, no.91This goblet belongs to a distinct group of glasses all characterised by the use of thick latticinio threads applied as ribs in high relief. They are discussed in detail by Robert Charleston in his article, Types of glass imported into the Near East, and some fresh examples: 15th-16th century, in Festschrift für Peter Wilhelm Meister (1975), pp.245-51. The form of the bowl relates closely to a series of albarelli discussed by Anna-Elisabeth Theuerkauff-Liederwald, Venezianisches Glas der Veste Coburg (1994), pp.369-74, nos.382-98. See in particular no.397, which shares the feature of two vetro a fili ribs alternating with a single vetro a retorti rib. Unlike the albarelli, goblets from this group always have twin horizontal latticinio bands. Theuerkauff-Liederwald states that the use of these distinctive horizontal bands in combination with the vertical ribs may have been particularly valued in the Middle East. She suggests a possible Spanish (Catalan) influence, with production in either Spain or Italy.A goblet with a bowl of very similar form and almost identical decoration is in the Victoria and Albert Museum (inv. no.5243-1901), but set instead on a latticinio stem and foot. Another fragmentary example on a stem with a hollow ribbed knop applied with gilding is in the Museum Rotterdam (inv. no.15393). The lion mask stem on the present lot is a feature from the second half of the 16th century. An example of related manufacture with a lion mask stem, but without latticinio ribs to the bowl, is illustrated by Theuerkauff-Liederwald (1994), p.248, no.225. Compare also to the goblet sold by Bonhams on 29 September 2020, lot 36.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A heavy baluster wine glass, circa 1710-15The round funnel bowl with a solid base, the stem with a wide teared angular knop, the tear extending into a basal knop, over a folded conical foot, 16cm highFootnotes:A slightly larger example from the Graham Vivian Collection was sold by Bonhams on 1 December 2021, lot 115.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A rare Venetian or façon de Venise latticinio goblet, circa 1700Decorated with sixteen alternating opaque white bands in vetro a retorti formed from one layer of glass, eight a rete containing two pairs of four-ply spiral bands, the other eight formed of two pairs of multi-ply spiral bands, including one with additional central wavering bands, the generous bell-shaped bowl with a flared rim merging into a hollow stem, applied with a high domed foot formed from the same gather as the bowl, 13.5cm highFootnotes:ProvenancePaul Gresswell-Wilkins CollectionNo other latticinio goblet of this exact form would appear to be recorded in the literature, but the use of latticinio with one layer of glass together with the use of complex double-series a retorti canes is seen in latticinio glass of circa 1700 in the Danish Royal collection at Rosenborg Castle, see Kitty Laméris, Differences Between early Filigrana Glass and Rosenborg Castle Type Filigrana Glass, in Study Days on Venetian Glass (2015), pp.147-54. The use of the same gather of glass for both the bowl and the foot as seen here is a feature of some earlier glass. A goblet with a domed foot similarly applied to the bowl without a dividing merese was sold by Bonhams on 20 May 2015, lot 14.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Dutch engraved Royal armorial baluster wine glass, second quarter 18th centuryThe round funnel bowl with a slightly everted rim and a solid beaded base, decorated with the English arms of Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange, within a crowned cartouche inscribed with the motto of the Order of the Garter, flanked by crossed floral sprays, the teared stem with two graduated cushion knops above an inverted baluster section, over a spreading conical foot, 17.6cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceChris Crabtree CollectionPrincess Anne (1709-1759) was the eldest daughter of King George II of Great Britain and Caroline of Ansbach.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Giles gilded opaque twist ale glass and an engraved facet-stem ale glass, circa 1765-75The first decorated in the London workshop of James Giles, the tall round funnel bowl gilt with crossed ears of barley, two insects in flight to the reverse, beneath a gilt line rim, on a double-series stem with a pair of multi-ply spiral tapes encircled by a thirteen-ply spiral band, over a conical foot, 18.8cm high, the other with a tall ogee bowl with an 'OXO' border to the rim, on a diamond-faceted stem and conical foot, 16.6cm high (2)Footnotes:A very similar Giles gilded ale glass was sold by Bonhams on 21 June 2022, lot 124.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Jacobite engraved airtwist wine glass, circa 1750The drawn trumpet bowl with a six-petalled rose on a thorny stem with two buds, one closed and one open, the reverse with an oak leaf below a star and 'Fiat', on a multi-spiral stem and conical foot, 16.4cm highFootnotes:According to Geoffrey B Seddon, The Jacobites and their Drinking Glasses (1995), the engraving may be attributed to Engraver C or E in the author's nomenclature.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A good baluster wine glass, circa 1725-30The slender bell bowl with a flared rim, set on a stem with a solid ball knop set between short plain sections, above a wide teared inverted baluster terminating in a basal knop, over a conical foot, 16.7cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceWith Gabor Cossa Antiques, 23 March 1985For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
An opaque twist ratafia glass or flute, circa 1765The very slender tall trumpet bowl moulded with fine flutes around the lower part, on a double-series stem with a pair of three-ply spiral bands around a central gauze column, over a conical foot, 18.2cm highFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Jacobite engraved airtwist wine glass, circa 1750The generous drawn trumpet bowl with a six-petalled rose on a thorny stem with two buds, one closed and one open, the reverse with a large oak leaf and inscribed 'Fiat', on a multi-spiral airtwist stem and wide conical foot, 18cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceTatton Hewetson Collection, Bonhams, 13 November 2013, lot 26According to Geoffrey B Seddon, The Jacobites and their Drinking Glasses (1995), the engraving is distinctively the hand of Engraver B in the author's nomenclature.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A very rare green-tinted opaque twist wine glass, circa 1760-70The pale green cup-shaped bowl of 'roemer' type, on a hollow cylinder knop applied with three raspberry prunts, above an opaque twist stem in clear glass set with an opaque white multi-ply corkscrew, over a domed foot also in pale green, 15.3cm highFootnotes:These unusual pale green glass roemers were English products imitating earlier Roemers from the Low Countries and probably intended for the export market, principally to Holland. Similar examples are illustrated by W A Thorpe, A History of English and Irish Glass (1929), pl.C(4) and by Ward Lloyd, A Wine Lover's Glasses (2000), p.99, pl.146(c), the latter sold by Bonhams as part of the A C Hubbard Jr Collection on 30 November 2011, lot 120. Compare also to that from the Ron and Mary Thomas Collection sold by Bonhams on 4 June 2008, lot 138.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A fine colour twist wine glass, circa 1765The bell bowl on a stem enclosing a solid multi-ply corkscrew edged on one side in translucent emerald-green and on the other in opaque iron-red, a pair of heavy opaque white spiral threads between, over a conical foot, 16cm highFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A baluster wine glass, circa 1730-35The waisted bell bowl with a solid base, the stem with a triple-annulated knop above a teared inverted baluster terminating in a basal knop, over a folded conical foot, 16.5cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceWith John A Brooks, 7 April 1994A similar glass is illustrated by L M Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), p.90, no.152.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Jacobite engraved airtwist wine glass, circa 1750The drawn trumpet bowl with a six-petalled rose on a leafy stem with two buds, one closed and one open, inscribed 'Fiat' above, the reverse with an oak leaf and a star, on a multi-spiral stem comprising five mercurial air threads, over a folded conical foot, 17.9cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceGavina Ewart Collection, Bonhams, 6 March 2002, lot 16For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Four various opaque twist glasses and a mixed twist wine glass, circa 1765With double-series stems and conical feet, comprising an ale flute with an elongated ogee bowl engraved with hops and barley, 19.7cm high, a large flute with a funnel bowl moulded with fine basal flutes, 20.7cm high, a wine with a bucket bowl, 16.3cm high, and a wine with a tulip-shaped ogee bowl, 13.1cm high, the mixed twist glass with an ovoid bowl on a stem with a pair of opaque white gauze corkscrews around a central mercurial air column, 13.2cm high (5)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Bohemian amber-stained goblet and crown cover, circa 1840-50 The barrel-shaped bowl cut with eight broad panels, engraved with a continuous tree-lined landscape scene depicting two figures of sportsmen with their dogs, one holding his horse by the reins, the other about to take aim at a flock of game birds with his shotgun, a group of three deer including two stags to the reverse, raised on a stepped octagonal base and spreading foot deeply scalloped at the rim and with a fancy star-cut underside, the cover unusually formed as a coronet or crown with an orb finial, each panel engraved with a landscape vignette depicting a single stag or hound, 41cm high (2) Footnotes: According to Michael Kovacek, Glass of Five Centuries (1990), p.188, crown-shaped covers were a speciality of the Harrachov glassworks. An almost identical goblet and cover, engraved with a different hunting scene, was sold by Bonhams on 11 December 2013, lot 35. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Venetian or façon de Venise latticinio goblet, probably 19th centuryIn vetro a reticello, decorated with fine spiralling filigree threads in opaque white, each intersection containing a trapped air bubble, the generous cup-shaped bowl on a hollow inverted baluster stem set between clear glass collars, over a spreading circular foot, 14.7cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceChris Crabtree CollectionTwo vetro a reticello goblets of very similar construction with comparable hollow stems, both additionally applied with pincered 'wings', are in the Victoria and Albert Museum (inv. nos.C.40-1937 and CIRC.434-1927), where they are attributed to Salviati & C. One was made in 1866, the year that Antonio Salviati set up his own furnace on Murano.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Beilby enamelled opaque twist wine glass, circa 1765The ogee bowl painted with fruiting vine in opaque white, faint traces of gilding to the rim, set on a double-series stem containing a multi-ply corkscrew encircled by a pair of opaque white spiral tapes, over a conical foot, 14.6cm highFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A baluster wine glass, circa 1735-40The slightly waisted bell bowl with a solid base, set on a large beaded ball knop, above a slender inverted baluster terminating in a small basal knop, over a folded conical foot, 16.6cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceWith Delomosne and Son, 2 May 1985For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A rare Southern Bohemian engraved baluster goblet, circa 1690Of very pale pink tint, the thick conical bowl with a solid base, cut with elaborate stylised flowering foliate sprays woven between three rows of four polished lenses, all between formal 'Bohemian' husk borders, set on a triple collar above a wide teared inverted baluster resting on a double merese and short plain stem, the broad circular foot with a further band of husks, 19.3cm highFootnotes:Very similar goblets exist from early production in Potsdam, see Robert Schmidt, Brandenburgische Gläser (1914), pl.4, no.2. A goblet of slightly different form but with almost identical engraving is illustrated by Rainer Rückert, Die Glassammlung des Bayerischen Nationalmuseums München, Vol.2 (1982), p.218 and pl.186, no.610. Rückert suggests that the so-called 'Bohemian' husk borders and the bright yellow-green fluorescence of the glass under ultraviolet light, both of which are features of the present lot, support a Bohemian origin.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
An exceptionally rare colour twist wine glass, circa 1765The ogee bowl set on a stem comprising a thirteen-ply multi-coloured corkscrew evenly formed from pairs of translucent blue, pink and green threads alternating with opaque white, over a conical foot, 15.4cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceMrs I K Webb Collection, Christie's, 23 May 1989, lot 133Private London CollectionThe remarkable stem of this glass is paralleled only by a glass from the Julius and Ann Kaplan Collection sold by Bonhams on 15 November 2017, lot 49. The stems share close similarities with a small group of glasses with similar multi-ply stems in yellow, blue and opaque white. See those from the collections of A C Hubbard Jr and of Julius and Ann Kaplan sold by Bonhams on 30 November 2011, lot 212 and 15 November 2017, lot 51 respectively.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Williamite engraved commemorative Royal armorial goblet, second quarter 18th century Of impressive size, the generous round funnel bowl with the crowned arms of William III as King of England within a circular frame inscribed with the motto of the Order of the Garter, flanked by lion and unicorn supporters standing on a banner inscribed 'IE MAINTIENDRAY [sic]', the reverse with a star centred by a lens, raised on a plain stem and wide conical foot, 25.7cm high Footnotes: Provenance G S May Esq Collection Chris Crabtree Collection William III (1750-1702), widely known as William of Orange, was Prince of Orange from birth and King of England, Ireland and Scotland from 1689 until his death. This coat of arms is of the Kingdom of England used by William III between 1694 and 1702, several decades before the date of the glass itself, suggesting that it is a later commemorative piece. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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