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Four opaque twist glasses and a moulded stem wine glass, circa 1750-65Comprising a pair of ale flutes, the tall round funnel bowls with basal honeycomb moulding, on double-series stems and conical feet, 18.7cm high, a wine with a pointed ovoid bowl on a multi-spiral stem with a central knop, over a folded conical foot, 15.3cm high, a dram glass with a trumpet bowl over a stem containing a gauze corkscrew and a conical foot, 11.6cm high, together with a wine in soda metal, the conical bowl on a six-sided pedestal stem and folded conical foot, 14.5cm high (5)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A very rare moulded stem baluster large wine glass, circa 1720-30The generous conical bowl solid at the base, the most unusual four-sided pedestal stem with rounded flutes or ribs to each side and containing an elongated tear, over a folded conical foot, 18.7cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceRichard Emanuel CollectionWith Delomosne and Son, 4 October 2010Patrick and Mavis Walker CollectionLiteratureL M Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), p.125, no.290Delomosne and Son, A Gathering of Glass (2010), no.24bIn their catalogue, Delomosne and Son picture this glass alongside another with a thistle bowl on a fluted moulded stem of related form. They note that both glasses are unique and no other similar examples would appear to be recorded.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

An airtwist sweetmeat glass, circa 1750The double ogee bowl set on three graduated collars above a shoulder-knopped stem enclosing a pair of mercurial corkscrew threads, over a domed and folded foot, 18.5cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceBickerton Collection, Bonhams sale, 14 June 2000, lot 128Graham Vivian CollectionLiteratureL M Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1971), dust jacket and (1986), p.170, pl.467For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A façon de Venise serpent-stemmed winged wine glass, 17th centuryWith a round funnel bowl resting on a merese, the looped and twisted stem formed of single length of clear glass rope set with two opaque white spiral threads, applied at the sides with pincered ornament and flattened serpent heads as finials in bright turquoise glass, the stem knopped at the base and on a wide foot folded at the rim, 28.5cm highFootnotes:ProvenancePrivate British CollectionA very similar glass is in the Willet-Holthuysen Museum, illustrated by Hubert Vreeken, Glas in Het Amsterdams Historisch Museum (1998), p.143, no.119. Another was sold by Sotheby's in Zurich on 5 December 1991, lot 7.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A baluster wine glass, circa 1725-30The waisted bell bowl with a solid base, on a cushion knop above a solid inverted baluster, the basal triple-annulated knop over a domed foot, 16.7cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceThomas Arthur Lewis Collection, Christie's sale, 18 November 1980, lot 28Christie's sale, 26 May 1982, lot 130Patrick and Mavis Walker CollectionFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

An early baluster ale glass or wine flute, circa 1725-30The tall waisted bell bowl with a solid base, set on a triple-annulated knop above an inverted baluster and basal knop, over a conical foot, 19.3cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceWith Delomosne and Son, 13 June 2012Patrick and Mavis Walker CollectionA pair of plain ale glasses similar to that in the present lot is illustrated by Ward Lloyd, A Wine Lover's Glasses (2000), pp.34 and 36, pl.28.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A baluster ale flute and a moulded stem cordial glass, circa 1730-50The ale glass with a slender bell bowl, the plain stem with a short inverted baluster lower section, over a domed foot, 20.5cm high, the cordial glass with a bucket bowl moulded with fine basal flutes, set on a tall eight-sided moulded stem enclosing an elongated tear, the basal annulated collar over a conical foot, 17.2cm high (2)Footnotes:ProvenanceBickerton Collection, Bonhams sale, 14 June 2000, lot 83 (flute)With Delomosne and Son, 15 June 2001 (cordial)Graham Vivian CollectionLiteratureL M Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), p.104, no.206 (flute)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Jacobite engraved airtwist wine glass, circa 1750With a pan topped funnel bowl, finely engraved below the rim with a band of flowers, including a heraldic six-petalled rose, honeysuckle, a carnation, and a sunflower, the multi-spiral stem with a central swelling knop, over a conical foot, 15.5cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceWith Delomosne and Son, 13 June 2012Patrick and Mavis Walker CollectionA glass with very similar engraving probably by the same hand is illustrated by Geoffrey B Seddon, The Jacobites and Their Drinking Glasses (1995), p.126, col. pl.33 (left) where it is suggested that the initial letters of the flowers may spell 'Charles'.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

An opaque twist sweetmeat and a wine glass, circa 1760-65The sweetmeat glass with a double ogee bowl with a pincered or dentated rim, set on a double collar and single-series stem enclosing a gauze corkscrew, over a folded conical foot, 17.5cm high, the wine glass with a panel-moulded ogee bowl, above a double-series stem with two pairs of spiral threads around a central gauze column, over a conical foot, 15.5cm high (2)Footnotes:ProvenanceSotheby's sale, 16 February 1981, lot 60 (sweetmeat)S V D D Jones Collection, Christie's sale, 7 June 1988, lot 175 (sweetmeat)Whittle Collection, Bonhams sale, 3 June 2009, lot 129 (sweetmeat)With Christopher Sheppard, 1 December 2011 (sweetmeat)With Jeanette Hayhurst, 2005 (wine glass)Graham Vivian CollectionExhibitedGlass Circle Diamond Jubilee exhibition, 1997, no.143 (sweetmeat)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A façon de Venise serpent-stemmed winged wine glass, 17th centuryThe slender round funnel bowl resting on a merese, the meandering stem formed of a rope of glass containing a brightly coloured assortment of spiralling threads in white, iron-red and translucent blue, the sides with pincered ornament in turquoise glass, on a short plain lower section with a small basal knop, the conical foot neatly folded at the rim, 18.8cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceBritish Private CollectionA much larger glass with a stem containing threads in similar colours is illustrated by Anna-Elisabeth Theuerkauff-Liederwald, Venezianisches Glas der Veste Coburg (1994), p.341, fig.337.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

An engraved mixed twist wine glass, circa 1765The bell bowl finely decorated with a sprig of five bell-shaped flowers on a single stem with a large serrated leaf, set on a mixed stem containing a multiple spiral airtwist alternating with a single opaque white spiral thread, 17.6cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceJulius and Ann Kaplan Collection, Bonhams sale, 15 November 2017, lot 64This distinctive glass is closely related to other examples with blue or green colour twist stems, see the footnote to lot 141 in this sale. A possible Low Countries origin for this group is discussed by Delomosne and Son, The Seton Veitch Collection (2006), no.43.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A rare cylinder-knopped baluster wine glass, circa 1710-20The flared trumpet bowl with a solid base, above a cushion knop resting on a collar, the tapering teared cylinder knop on a half knop and small basal knop, over a folded domed foot, 15.4cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceWith Delomosne and Son, 8 November 2007Patrick and Mavis Walker CollectionA similar glass from the James Hall Collection was sold by Bonhams on 17 December 2008, lot 38. Another was sold by Sotheby's on 5 June 2007, lot 162.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Jacobite engraved opaque twist ale glass, circa 1760The tall round funnel bowl decorated with a large seven-petalled rose on a leafy stem with one closed bud, the reverse with a thorny thistle, on a stem containing a pair of opaque white gauze corkscrews, over a conical foot, 18.6cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceWith Jeanette Hayhurst, 29 September 2006Patrick and Mavis Walker CollectionFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

An unusual engraved airtwist wine glass, circa 1750The round funnel bowl decorated with a tulip-like flower on a leafy stem with one closed bud, a moth to the reverse, on a multi-spiral inverted baluster stem with a basal knop, over a folded conical foot, 16.1cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceSotheby's sale, 25 May 1993, lot 110With Delomosne and Son, 1993For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A large baluster wine glass or goblet, circa 1730The 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 drawn tear, over a small basal knop and folded conical foot, 19.1cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceWith Delomosne and Son, 12 May 1998Patrick and Mavis Walker CollectionA similar glass but on a folded domed foot from the Basil Jeffries Collection was sold by Bonhams on 12 November 2014, lot 18.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A heavy baluster wine glass, circa 1710-15With a thistle shaped bowl solid at the base, set on a teared mushroom knop, the tear extending into a globular basal knop, over a wide folded conical foot, 17.5cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceWith Delomosne and Son, 19 June 2001Patrick and Mavis Walker CollectionA very similar glass from the James Hall Collection was sold by Bonhams on 17 December 2008, lot 45. See also that from the Thomas Collection sold by Bonhams on 4 June 2008, lot 14.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

An engraved wine glass, circa 1760The engraving probably Dutch, the ogee bowl decorated with a portly nude figure of Bacchus astride a barrel, holding a goblet in one hand and a wine bottle in the other, flanked by fruiting foliate sprays, a stylised floral sprig to the reverse, on a plain stem and folded conical foot, 14.5cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceWith Delomosne and Son, 28 June 1989Patrick and Mavis Walker CollectionOther glasses engraved with similar scenes of Bacchus sitting on a barrel from the A C Hubbard Jr. Collection are illustrated by Ward Lloyd, A Wine Lover's Glasses (2000), pp.97-8, pls.142-4.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A façon de Venise serpent-stemmed winged wine glass, 17th centuryWith a cup-shaped bowl resting on a merese, above a remarkable stem formed from a knotted rope of glass, the twisted tubing containing spiral threads of white, blue and yellow looped around a central opaque white ribbon, applied at the sides with pincered dark turquoise glass trails and surmounted by flattened finials suggesting the heads of two serpents, the short plain base of the stem with a flattened knop above a conical foot folded at the rim, 27.7cm highFootnotes:ProvenancePrivate British CollectionFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Giles gilded opaque twist wine glass, circa 1765Decorated in the London workshop of James Giles, the ogee bowl decorated with a meandering branch of fruiting vine, a gilt band to the rim, the double-series stem with a pair of multi-ply spiral tapes around a pair of spiral threads, over a conical foot, 14.9cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceWith Delomosne and Son, 2014A very similar glass is illustrated by L M Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), p.351, no.1145.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A rare and important Privateer wine glass for The Lyon, circa 1756-60The bucket bowl engraved with the three-masted ship in full sail, inscribed around the rim 'Success to the LYON Privateer', on a double-series opaque twist stem containing a pair of gauze corkscrews, over a conical foot, 15.2cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceSir Hugh Dawson Collection, Sotheby's sale, 13 May 1960, lot 31Walter F Smith Collection, Sotheby's sale, 4 December 1967, lot 225Seton Veitch CollectionWith Delomosne and SonTrevor Davis CollectionWith Delomosne and Son, 28 November 2013Patrick and Mavis Walker CollectionLiteraturePercy Bate, English Table Glass (1905), pl.LXV, no.246Arthur Churchill, History in Glass (1937), pl.22, no.103E B Haynes, Apollo, May 1940, fig.9E B Haynes, Glass Through the Ages (1948), pl.85eDelomosne and Son, The Seton Veitch Collection (2006), no.42This glass belongs to a group of wine glasses with bucket-shaped bowls presumed to have been made for Bristol Privateers. In their catalogue, Delomosne and Son note that this may be the only known glass for the 'Lyon', but a slightly smaller glass for this ship had been withdrawn from a Sotheby's sale on 21 July 1934.The Privateers were in effect officially sanctioned pirate-ships. The Lyon was an active Bristol-based ship of 360 tons with 24 guns and a crew of 250 men, declared on 11 September 1756 and commanded by Captain Robert How. Discrepancies in the spelling of the name of the same ship are recorded in a letter from Bristol of 11 April 1757, reproduced in The London Chronicle (no.49)...'The Lion [sic] Privateer... fought two Hours with the Victory, Privateer of Bayonne, disabled her Masts' and that 'Captain How, who commands the Lyon, afterwards fell in with the Man of War and the Privateer, and the French Captain told him, that he lost 25 Men in the Engagement with him, though Captain How had not a Man wounded'.Between January and April 1757 The Lyon Privateer captured no less than six foreign vessels. For example, The London Chronicle notes that in January 1757 (no.10) it captured 'the Mermaid, bound from St. Domingo for Nantz, laden with 323 Hogsheads of Sugar, 4320 lb. of Indigo, and 15 Tons of Coffee', in March 1757 (no.38) 'The Industry, Boreland, from Carolina, for London, is retaken by the Lyon Privateer of Bristol, and sent into Yarmouth', in April 1757 (no.41) 'A French Privateer of 10 Carriage Guns, 12 Swivels, and 80 Men, is taken by the Lyon Privateer, and carried into Falmouth', and the same month (no.50) 'The Catherine, from Rochelle for Cayenne and the Acadia from Bourdeaux for Quebeck are taken by the Lyon Privateer of Bristol, Capt. How, and carried into Bristol'.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A rare Jacobite engraved firing glass, circa 1750The drawn trumpet bowl decorated with a six-petalled rose on a thorny stem with one closed and one open bud, the reverse with a crown, on a short plain stem enclosing a tear, over a heavy firing foot, 10.6cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceWith Jeanette Hayhurst, 28 September 2007Patrick and Mavis Walker CollectionTwo glasses engraved with similar crowns are illustrated by Geoffrey B Seddon, The Jacobites and their Drinking Glasses (1995), pp.101-2, pls.52 and 53d. Compare also to the wine glass from the Peter Lole Collection sold by Bonhams on 15 May 2019, lot 261 and illustrated by Ward Lloyd, A Wine Lover's Glasses (2000), pp.82-4, pl.108a.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A façon de Venise serpent-stemmed winged wine glass, 17th centuryThe tall round funnel bowl set on a merese, the elaborate twisted stem formed of a sinuous rope of glass containing twisted threads of glass in white and iron-red, looped symmetrically, applied at the sides with pincered bright turquoise ornament including flattened finials suggesting the heads of two serpents, the stem set between two short plains sections, over a conical foot delicately folded at the rim, 30.3cm highFootnotes:ProvenancePrivate British CollectionA very similar glass engraved in diamond-point is illustrated by Anna-Elisabeth Theuerkauff-Liederwald, Venezianisches Glas der Veste Coburg (1994), pp.338-40, no.331 and another on p.341, no.336. See also that with a bowl of slightly different form in the Kunstgewerbemuseum, Cologne, illustrated by Brigitte Klesse in the catalogue, Glas (1963), p.109, no.221.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A fine façon de Venise engraved winged wine glass, 17th centuryThe slightly flared bucket bowl decorated in diamond-point to each side with a formal spray of flowers, the sides with single tulips, resting on a collar above a hollow shoulder-knopped inverted baluster stem, applied with a pair of opposing 'wings' trailed in aquamarine edged with pincered ornament in clear glass, the folded conical foot further engraved with highly stylised leaves and flowerheads, 17.1cm highFootnotes:ProvenancePrivate British CollectionThis stem formation is seen on a large number of façon de Venise glasses with similar diamond-point engraved decoration, see for example those sold by Bonhams on 12 December 2012, lot 3 and 3 November 2016, lot 16. However, only two other glasses of this particular form would appear to be recorded. One is in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris (inv. no.A 62.12), illustrated by Erwin Baumgartner, Venise et façon de Venise (2003), p.88-9, no.39. The other is in the Wadsworth Atheneum in Connecticut (inv. no.1917.325), illustrated by Dwight Lanmon, Glass from Six Centuries (1978), p.24, no.12. Unlike the present lot, neither has a folded footrim.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A rare façon de Venise serpent-stemmed winged wine tazza, 17th centuryThe shallow cup-shaped bowl moulded with twelve radiating ribs, resting on a small merese, the elaborate stem formed from a single twisted rope of clear glass containing spiralling threads in opaque white, the sides trailed with pincered ornament in bright turquoise-blue, above a short plain section and basal knop, over a delicate conical foot, 12.4cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceWalter F Smith Collection, Sotheby's sale, 8 July 1968, lot 916Krug Collection, Sotheby's sale, 7 July 1981, lot 26Private British CollectionLiteratureBrigitte Klesse, Glassammlung Helfried Krug (1973), pp.114-5, no.492A very similar tazza with a plain bowl was sold by Christie's on 8 February 1977, lot 199. A winged tazza of similar form with a honeycomb-moulded bowl in the British Museum (inv. no.S.573) is illustrated by Hugh Tait, The Golden Age of Venetian Glass (1979), p.88, no.139. Another is in Corning Museum of Glass (inv. no.79.3.181).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A colour twist wine glass, circa 1765The bell bowl with a solid base, set on a stem with two opaque white spiral ribbons edged in translucent blue around a translucent green core, over a conical foot, 15.7cm highFootnotes:A very similar glass from the A C Hubbard Jr. Collection is illustrated by Ward Lloyd, A Wine Lover's Glasses (2000), p.53, pl.65(a) and was sold by Bonhams on 30 November 2011, lot 205.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 baluster wine or cordial glass, circa 1730The flared bowl with a solid teared base, the plain stem swelling into a central angular knop containing a tear, above a small basal knop and folded conical foot, 17cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceWith Delomosne and Son, 7 November 2005Patrick and Mavis Walker CollectionFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Bohemian Zwischengoldglas flask and stopper and a sweetmeat glass, circa 1730The flask of flattened circular form, engraved to both sides with frosted star-shaped panels with rows of polished circlets, one reserved to the centre with a Zwischengoldglas medallion internally gilded with a rearing stag against a translucent ruby ground, the stopper with a twisted finial containing a single ruby thread, 27.3cm high, the sweetmeat cut in 'rock crystal' style, the shell-shaped bowl with a scrolled handle, on a faceted baluster stem enclosing aventurine and ruby threads, over a conical foot cut with a band of circlets, 11.5cm high (3)Footnotes:Similar flasks from the Brauser Collection in the Museum der Stadt Regensburg are illustrated in the catalogue, Gläser (1977), p.132, nos.272 and 273. Another from the Krug Collection was sold by Sotheby's on 14 March 1983, lot 750.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A façon de Venise winged wine glass, 17th centuryThe conical bowl set on a hollow tapering stem with a basal merese, applied with opposing aquamarine trailed wings with pincered ornament in clear glass, on a wide conical folded foot, 18cm highFootnotes:ProvenancePrivate British CollectionTwo very similar glasses are in the Museo del Vetro di Murano (inv. nos. Cl.VI n.01163 and n.00511), one of which is illustrated by Barovier Mentasti et al., Mille Anni di Arte del Vetro a Venezia (1982), p.118, no.148. Another is illustrated by Anna-Elisabeth Theuerkauff-Liederwald, Venezianisches Glas der Veste Coburg (1994), p.263, no.244. Two more are in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris (inv. nos. A62.1.A and A62.1.B) illustrated by Erwin Baumgartner, Venise et Façon de Venise (2003), p.99, no.44. See also that from the Lady Cartwright Collection sold by Bonhams on 29 September 2020, lot 24.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A very rare baluster flute, circa 1710The tall, thin conical bowl with a solid base, set on a short inverted baluster stem and folded conical foot, 21cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceKirby-Mason Collection, Sotheby's sale, 21 November 1929, lot 51Henry Brown Collection, Sotheby's sale, 29 July 1947, lot 122LiteratureFrancis Buckley, Old English Glass (1925), pl.12W A Thorpe, A History of English and Irish Glass (1929), pl.XLIV, fig.3A flute with an acorn-knopped stem is illustrated and discussed by Dwight P Lanmon, The Golden Age of English Glass (2011), pp.117-9 and 121, no.37 where it is suggested that glasses of this type may have been used for champagne instead of ale or beer. It is also possible that it was meant for wine.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A rare engraved mixed colour twist wine glass, circa 1760-65The bell bowl very finely engraved with a botanical specimen, the stem with a multi-spiral airtwist gauze corkscrew encircled by a single opaque jade-green spiral thread, over a conical foot, 16.8cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceSotheby's sale, 25 May 1993, lot 33Bonhams sale, 2 May 2018, lot 129This fine glass belongs to a series of closely related mixed colour twist wine glasses all with botanical engraving, the stems either with blue, green or opaque green threads. Three glasses from this group, probably engraved by the same hand, were in the Julius and Ann Kaplan Collection sold by Bonhams on 15 November 2017, lots 60, 63 and 64. Another with a similar opaque jade-green thread was in the A C Hubbard Jr. Collection sold by Bonhams on 30 November 2011, lot 228. Further examples with related engraving from the Seton Veitch Collection are discussed together in Delomosne and Son's 2006 catalogue, no.43 where a Low Countries origin is suggested.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A façon de Venise winged wine glass, 17th centuryThe cup-shaped bowl set on a shoulder-knopped hollow baluster stem between two mereses, flanked by opposing 'wings' trailed in bright turquoise-blue with pincered ornament in clear glass, on a conical foot, 14.5cm highFootnotes:ProvenancePrivate British CollectionA very similar glass from the Overduin Collection was sold by Bonhams on 21 May 2014, lot 6. Other glasses with applied wings of similar form are illustrated by Pieter van Eck and Henrica Zijlstra-Zweens, Glass in the Rijksmuseum, vol.1 (1993), pp.48-50, nos.54-8, by Hubert Vreeken, Glas in Het Amsterdams Historisch Museum (1998), pp.116-9, nos.66-71 and by Anna-Elisabeth Theuerkauff-Liederwald, Venezianisches Glas der Veste Coburg (1994), pp.295-9, nos.284-8 and 291-3.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

An engraved airtwist wine glass of possible Jacobite significance, circa 1750The drawn trumpet bowl decorated with a multi-petalled rose in profile, on a thorny stem with one closed bud, the reverse with an insect, set on a multi-spiral airtwist stem and conical foot, 16.5cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceWith Delomosne and Son, 2011For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Bristol 'Non-Such' blue glass finger bowl by Isaac Jacobs, circa 1805Of deep 'Bristol blue' colour, the rounded form brightly gilded with a Greek Key border below the rim, 12.7cm diam, signed 'I. Jacobs/ Bristol' in gilt on the baseFootnotes:See the footnote to the previous lot. A very similar finger bowl from the Thomas Collection was sold by Bonhams on 4 June 2008, lot 246.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

An exceptional Venetian engraved latticinio goblet, late 16th centuryOf generous cup-shaped form with an everted rim, applied with two concentric lattimo bands each composed of three fine opaque white threads, the base with 'nipt diamond waies' decoration formed of eight pairs of thick lattimo threads in relief, the bowl finely engraved in diamond-point with a formal foliate border, bands of circlets and trefoils beneath, set on a hollow ball knop and spreading folded foot in vetro a fili, 13.6cm highFootnotes:ProvenancePaul Gresswell-Wilkins CollectionNo other latticinio piece decorated in this way would appear to be recorded in the literature with diamond-point engraving, making the present goblet a unique survivor and exceptionally important. Vessels with similar 'nipt diamond waies' decoration in plain opaque white, vetro a reticello, or a combination of the two are generally dated to the late 16th century and all have a characteristic pale grey tint. A tazza with very similar 'nipt diamond waies' decoration and concentric bands in plain lattimo glass in the British Museum (inv. no.S.598) is illustrated by Hugh Tait, The Golden Age of Venetian Glass (1979), p.67, no.86. Another very similar tazza in the metropolitan Museum of Art (inv. no1975.1.1216) is illustrated and discussed by Dwight P Lanmon and David Whitehouse, Glass in the Robert Lehman Collection (1993), pp.145-6, no.53, where several other related vessels are cited. Compare also to the Venini goblet in Corning Museum of Glass (inv. no.2013.3.15) and the goblet in the Victoria and Albert Museum (inv. no.C.2474-1910).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A good facet-stem wine glass of possible Jacobite significance, circa 1770The round funnel bowl with a petal-cut base, finely decorated to one side with a stylised seven-petalled flower and a moth in flight, the other with fruiting vine pendant from the rim, the hexagonal faceted stem with a central swelling knop, over an octagonal faceted conical foot, 16.3cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceSeton Veitch CollectionWith Delomosne and Son, 27 September 2006Patrick and Mavis Walker CollectionLiteratureDelomosne and Son, The Seton Veitch Collection (2006), no.49bFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

An exceptionally rare façon de Venise serpent-stemmed wine glass, probably Southern Bohemia, 17th centuryPossibly from the Count of Buquoy glassworks, the cup-shaped bowl moulded with fifteen evenly spaced vertical flutes, resting above a merese above a short plain section and ribbed hollow knop, the stem elaborately formed of two opposing twisted wrythen tubes of glass coiled at the tops, the bulbous ends applied with spiked ornament and resembling the heads of mythical beasts, with finely pincered 'wings' on either side, the openwork centre with a delicate traforato design of thin twisted vertical threads in clear glass, over a ribbed hollow baluster knop further applied with pincered ornament, above a short plain section between collars and a wide conical foot neatly folded at the rim, 33.5cm highFootnotes:ProvenancePrivate British CollectionThe construction of the present goblet, particularly the form of the ribbed hollow knops, closely relates to façon de Venise glasses produced in Southern Bohemia during the 17th century which have zoomorphic and serpent-like stems. Production records from the mid-17th century for the Buquoy glass factory at the Nové Hardy estate near Dobrá Voda (Heilbrunn) in particular, which was established in 1623 by Hans Walkhunni, show that they were producing a number of luxury glass items in Venetian style, most likely influenced by glass produced in the Franco-Flemish region. The most expensive of these glasses included winged and serpent-stemmed goblets.Two goblets of remarkably similar construction in the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague are illustrated by Olga Drahotová, 'Identifying Glass from the Buquoy Glass Factory', Journal of Glass Studies, vol.23 (1981), pp.47 and 55, fig.1. The openwork trellis stem of the present glass perhaps draws its influence from glass bowls and baskets produced in Southern Bohemia around the same time (see Drahotová (1981), p.51, fig.5), which no doubt later influenced the later products of Flemish-French and Bohemian glassmakers in Liège and elsewhere.No other surviving goblet with a comparable openwork stem would appear to be recorded, but a remarkably similar glass appears in a 17th century German still life painting sold by Dorotheum on 30 April 2019, lot 560 and later by Sotheby's as circle of Georg Hinz on 8 April 2021, lot 323. The German attributions would perhaps support a Southern Bohemian origin. A related wine glass in the Museo Galileo (inv. no.341/33) is illustrated by Giovanni Mariacher, Italian Blown Glass (1961), pl.XXVIII. See also the goblet with an owl stem formed from a ribbed knop of similar baluster form in the British Museum (inv. no.S.461), illustrated by Hugh Tait, The Golden Age of Venetian Glass (1979), pp.62-3, no.77. Another goblet attributed to the Buquoy glassworks is in Corning Museum of Glass (inv. no.91.3.36).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

An unusual baluster wine glass, circa 1720-30Of thistle shape, the conical bowl solid at the base resting on a pronounced solid ball knop, the stem with a wide angular knop enclosing a drawn tear, over a folded conical foot, 16.5cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceJohn Towse CollectionWith Delomosne and Son, 11 June 2014Patrick and Mavis Walker CollectionIt is highly unusual to find a thistle bowl in which the base of the conical section is also solid. Thistle bowls vary considerably in form, but examples with pronounced ball-knopped bases such as this were typically favoured on glasses with moulded stems, see Delomosne and Son, A Gathering of Glass (2010), no.21 for a discussion. The present glass is therefore a particularly rare and unusual specimen.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

The Dissolution: a stipple engraved goblet by Simon Whistler, dated 1977The shape designed by Laurence Whistler, the generous bucket bowl engraved with a view of Llanthony Priory in Wales, the intact south-west tower of the former Augustinian monastery visible to the right, the arcade of ruined arches engraved in outline only to reveal the trees and steep-sided valley beyond, the Black Mountains rising abruptly in the distance with billowing clouds beyond, titled, dated and monogrammed 'SW' to the foot, 25.5cm high, sold together with the original glazed mahogany electrified display cabinet made by E Norwood (2)Footnotes:ProvenanceDr Michael Scorer CollectionExhibitedFifty Years on Glass, Kenwood House, London, and The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1985, no.55LiteratureSimon Whistler, On a Glass Lightly (2004), p.51 (illustrated in reverse)The artist describes the piece thus... 'The title refers to the destruction of the religious foundation in the sixteenth century and to the transparency of the architecture. The arcade of arches on the right [sic] hand side has been dissolved in order to reveal the landscape beyond'. Simon Whistler considered Llanthony Priory to be the epitome of what a ruin should look like and how it relates to its setting.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

An exceptionally rare Dutch engraved façon de Venise wine glass, circa 1660-70The round funnel bowl finely wheel-engraved with a continuous landscape scene, one side with a winged Cupid taming a bridled lion, holding a bow and arrow in one hand, the other with Cupid riding on the back of an eagle in flight, holding an open book in one hand and an olive branch in the other, three baying hounds beneath, two lovebirds in an olive tree to one side, a single bird perched in a tree to the other, the stem formed from a pair of tightly coiled ropes, both containing spiralling threads in opaque white and translucent turquoise, the upper terminals applied with opposing aquamarine raspberry prunts, the conical foot further engraved with three floral sprigs, 16.1cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceChristie's sale, 7 June 1988, lot 273Private British CollectionThe scenes on this glass are taken from the Ambacht van Cupido (The Trade of Cupid) in Nederduytsche Poemata by Daniël Heinsius, first published in 1616 and reprinted several times. Cupid flying on the back of an Eagle is after emblem 23, 'Amor eruditus' (Learned love). Cupid taming the Lion is after emblem 24, 'Omnia vincit Amor' (Love conquers all). Heinsius pioneered the use of the Dutch language for poetry. 'Omnia vincit Amor' was first published as emblem 1 in Heinsius' Quaeris quid sit amor? in circa 1601, which was the very first love emblem book ever written in Dutch.The glass itself belongs to a small group of engraved glasses which originated in the Southern Netherlands in the mid-17th century, influenced by Nuremburg decoration, see Pieter C Ritsema van Eck, 'Early Wheel Engraving in the Netherlands', Journal of Glass Studies, vol.26 (1984), pp.86-101 for a discussion. Several glasses engraved in similar style have related serpent stems terminating in two 'heads', which are characteristic of the Southern Netherlands, see pp.98-102, figs.35-7, 41 and 45. Unlike glasses decorated in the Northern Netherlands, these typically have wreaths engraved around the feet, of which floral sprigs on the foot of the present glass would appear to be a variant. A goblet and cover with related decoration, bearing a portrait of Charles II of Spain and two putti executed in very similar style, was sold by Bonhams on 20 November 2019, lot 7. Compare also to the goblet and cover from the Mühleib Collection sold by Bonhams on 2 May 2013, lot 52. A glass of very similar form excavated from Afferden, Limburg, in the Netherlands, but without engraved decoration is in Limburgs Museum (inv. no.L02776).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A façon de Venise tazza, 17th centuryOf straw tint, the wide shallow bowl with an undulating rim and moulded with fourteen ribs, set on a tall multi-knopped wrythen-moulded hollow stem formed of three globular knops over an inverted baluster, over a conical foot, 11.7cm highFootnotes:ProvenancePrivate British CollectionThe straw tint of the present lot is reminiscent of much Spanish glass from the 16th and 17th centuries. A wine glass of similar tint on a wrythen-moulded stem from the Overduin Collection was sold by Bonhams on 21 May 2014, lot 5.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A rare four-knopped airtwist wine glass, circa 1750The bell bowl of attractive small size, the multi-spiral twists extending into the base of the bowl, the stem with upper and central knops above a lower baluster and basal knop, on a conical foot, 16.8cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceStandish Collection, Christie's sale, 5 November 1998, lot 93Graham Vivian CollectionFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A small baluster wine glass, circa 1710-20The round funnel bowl with a solid base containing a tiny tear, the stem with a mushroom knop resting on a shallow merese, with a central drawn tear extending into a basal knop, over a folded domed foot, 13.9cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceWith Delomosne and Son, 17 November 1999Patrick and Mavis Walker CollectionA virtually identical glass from the Tatton Hewetson Collection was sold by Bonhams on 13 November 2013, lot 4. For a discussion of mushroom knops and a glass with a similar knop on a collar, see Delomosne and Son, The Baluster Family of English Drinking Glasses (1985), pp.28-9, no.12b.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A façon de Venise serpent-stemmed winged wine glass, 17th centuryWith a cup-shaped bowl resting on a merese, the delicate stem formed from a coiled rope of glass enclosing spiralling threads in opaque white and iron-red, the sides with pincered ornament in clear glass, above a short plain section with a flattened basal knop, over a wide plain conical foot, 20cm highFootnotes:ProvenancePrivate British CollectionA glass of similar size with white and red threads in the stem is in the Willet-Holthuysen Museum, illustrated by Hubert Vreeken, Glas in Het Amsterdams Historisch Museum (1998), p.141, no.115.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Two engraved airtwist cordial glasses, circa 1750The round funnel bowls with solid bases, engraved with stylised floral sprays, set on tall double-series stems containing a pair of mercurial corkscrews encircled by alternating five-ply and six-ply spiral bands, over conical feet, the bowl of the taller glass lightly moulded with basal flutes, 16.5cm and 16.1cm high (2)Footnotes:ProvenanceSotheby's sale, 5 October 1993, lot 136 (shortest)With Delomosne and Son, 1993 (shortest)With Delomosne and Son, 2012 (tallest)A virtually identical cordial to the shorter example is illustrated by E M Elville, The Collector's Dictionary of Glass (1961), fig.77.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

An unusual 'ladder' moulded airtwist wine glass, circa 1755The lipped ogee bowl and the conical foot both with distinctive ladder moulding, set on a double-series stem with a twelve-ply spiral band around a central mercurial corkscrew, 14.7cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceSeton Veitch CollectionWith Delomosne and SonBonhams sale, 15 November 2017, lot 98LiteratureDelomosne and Son, The Seton Veitch Collection (2006), no.41bAn example of this very rare type from the A C Hubbard Jr. Collection is illustrated by Ward Lloyd, A Wine Lover's Glasses (2000), pp.46 and 48, pl.52(b) and was sold by Bonhams on 30 November 2011, lot 101. Another is in the Baltimore Historical Society, while an example with an opaque twist stem is in Corning Museum of Glass (inv. no.2009.2.20).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A façon de Venise serpent-stemmed winged wine glass, 17th centuryThe round funnel bowl resting on a collar, the stem with a symmetrically coiled rope of glass enclosing opaque white spiralling threads, the sides with pincered 'wings' in aquamarine glass, above a short plan section and flattened basal knop, over a conical foot, 18.9cm highFootnotes:ProvenancePrivate British CollectionFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

An important documentary engraved goblet by the Rheinische Glashütten, dated 1904The tall conical bowl stained in green, decorated with a circular medallion inscribed with the initials 'SJ 50', surrounded by fruiting vine, the reverse inscribed 'Zum 50 jährigen/ Geschäftsjubiläum/ gewidmet/ von der Direction/ der Rheinischen Glashütten Act. Des/ Cöln Ehrenfeld' (For the 50th anniversary of the business dedicated by the Management of the Rheinische Glashütten Actien of Köln Ehrenfeld), on a tapered faceted stem, the foot dated '11 11 1904.', the underside star-cut, 34.2cm highFootnotes:The Rheinische Glashütten A G in Ehrenfeld, near Cologne, specialised in Historismus glass. It is widely accepted that it was founded in 1864 by Philipp Michel, ceased production in 1931 and was dissolved in 1937. This goblet places the date of its foundation to 1854, some ten years earlier.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

An unusual moulded opaque twist firing glass and a ratafia flute, circa 1765With fine basal flutes, on double-series stems with a pair of heavy opaque white spiral tapes around a central corkscrew, the first with a pan topped bowl over a heavy firing foot, 10.7cm high, the other of tall slender funnel shape over a conical foot, 18cm high (2)Footnotes:ProvenanceWith Jeanette Hayhurst, 3 May 2007 (wine)With Delomosne and Son, 12 June 2004 (ratafia)Patrick and Mavis Walker CollectionFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Jacobite engraved wine glass, circa 1740-50The round funnel bowl with a seven-petalled heraldic rose on a thorny stem with one closed bud, on a plain stem and conical foot, 15.6cm highFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A very rare engraved political commemorative opaque twist ale glass, circa 1768-70The tall round funnel bowl inscribed 'WILKES & LIBERTY.' AND 'No 45.' above a bird flying from an open cage, the double-series stem with two pairs of six-ply bands around a pair of opaque white spiral tapes, over a conical foot, 18.2cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceWith Delomosne and Son, 15 November 2010Patrick and Mavis Walker CollectionJohn Wilkes (1727-1797) was a controversial MP and journalist who played a critical role in the development of radical politics. He mocked the King's speech at the opening of Parliament in April 1763 in issue 45 of the 'North Briton', a weekly satirical pamphlet published by Wilkes. He was subsequently tried and convicted for seditious libel in 1764 but fled to Paris just before being declared an outlaw. When he returned to England in 1768, he was elected as a Radical Member of Parliament for Middlesex, where most of his support was located. He was imprisoned that May upon waiving his parliamentary privilege and became a political idol during his incarceration. Numerous gifts and trinkets were conveyed to his prison and houses were adorned with ornaments showing their support, many bearing emblems of the Cap of Liberty or a bird flying above a cage. His followers coined the phrase 'Wilkes, Liberty and Number 45'. A very similar ale glass is in the Fitzwilliam Museum (inv. no.C.640-1961).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Dutch engraved armorial light baluster wine glass, circa 1750The round funnel bowl with the crowned arms of South Holland flanked by lion supporters, the stem with a short inverted baluster above an acorn knop, plain section and basal knop, over a high folded domed foot, 18.4cm highFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A façon de Venise serpent-stemmed winged wine glass, 17th centuryThe generous round funnel bowl set on a collar, above a stem formed of a single winding rope of clear glass enclosing spiralling opaque white threads, the sides applied with pincered ornament in bright turquoise including flattened finials suggesting wings and downward-pointing leaves, all raised on a plain stem section with a small flattened basal knop, the conical foot folded at the rim, 27cm highFootnotes:ProvenancePrivate British CollectionA very similar glass in the Kunstgewerbemuseum, Cologne, illustrated by Brigitte Klesse in the catalogue, Glas (1963), p.109, no.219. Another was sold by Sotheby's in Zurich on 5 December 1991, lot 5.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A very rare façon de Venise quadruple-winged wine glass, 17th centuryOf attractive small size, the thin round funnel bowl resting on a small collar, above a multi-knopped hollow wrythen-moulded baluster stem with a flattened basal knop, applied with two pairs of opposing 'wings' in bright aquamarine with elaborate trailed and pincered ornament in clear glass, the conical foot with a narrow folded rim, 13cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceSotheby's sale, 21 July 1980, lot 225Private British CollectionIt is very rare to find four wings such as this on a winged wine glass. A very similar small quadruple-winged wine glass with a matching cover is in the Louvre (inv. no.OA 1077). Another related small wine glass with a very similar stem but a different bowl is illustrated and discussed by Anna-Elisabeth Theuerkauff-Liederwald, Venezianisches Glas der Veste Coburg (1994), pp.295-6 and 306, no.285.In good condition, save for some very faint crizzling overall which can only just be seen in certain light. The 'wings' and pincered ornament are all in excellent condition with no damage.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

An engraved airtwist wine glass of possible Jacobite significance, circa 1750The generous round funnel bowl decorated with a multi-petalled rose in profile, on a thorny leafy stem with one closed bud, a moth to the reverse, set on a double-series stem with a pair of mercurial threads around a multi-spiral column, over a conical foot, 16cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceBonhams sale, 15 December 2010, lot 90With Delomosne and Son, 2010For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A fine engraved light baluster wine glass, circa 1750The round funnel bowl decorated with a rocaille border of elaborate foliate scrollwork and diaper panels, the space below the rim filled with delicate trailing weed, resting on a merese, the multi-spiral airtwist stem with an upper acorn knop and central angular knop, over a conical foot, 18.1cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceSeton Veitch CollectionWith Delomosne and Son, 27 September 2006Patrick and Mavis Walker CollectionLiteratureDelomosne and Son, The Seton Veitch Collection (2006), no.31cAnother similar glass also from the Seton Veitch Collection is illustrated by Delomosne and Son in the catalogue, no.31e. See also that from the A C Hubbard Jr. Collection, illustrated by Ward Lloyd, A Wine Lover's Glasses (2000), p.100, pl.149 (left) and sold by Bonhams on 30 November 2011, lot 256.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A baluster wine glass, circa 1725-30The bell bowl with a solid base enclosing a tiny tear, resting on a cushion knop above a teared inverted baluster stem terminating in a basal knop, over a folded conical foot, 17cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceWith Delomosne and Son, 5 December 1981Patrick and Mavis Walker CollectionFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A fine baluster wine glass, circa 1720-25The round funnel bowl with a heavy solid base containing a small tear, resting on a collar, the stem with an opposing pair of teared balusters separated by a small cushion knop, over a folded conical foot, 15cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceSeton Veitch CollectionWith Delomosne and Son, 27 September 2006Patrick and Mavis Walker CollectionLiteratureDelomosne and Son, The Seton Veitch Collection (2006), no.10dIn their catalogue, Delomosne and Son note that the opposing balusters on this glass are particularly boldly conceived. A very similar glass from the James Hall Collection was sold by Bonhams on 17 December 2008, lot 44.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A baluster mead or champagne glass, early 18th centuryThe distinctive cup shaped bowl moulded with a ring of twenty evenly spaced basal flutes or gadroons, resting on two graduated collars, the stem with a teared mushroom knop above a short plain section terminating in a basal knop, over a conical folded foot, 12.2cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceWith Delomosne and Son, 14 June 2008Patrick and Mavis Walker CollectionThese are popularly known as mead glasses, but mead was rarely drunk in Britain and it is more likely they were inspired by Continental roemers used for Rhenish wine, see Dwight Lanmon, The Golden Age of English Glass (2011), p.93. Very similar glasses are illustrated by Delomosne and Son, The Baluster Family (1985), p.55, no.26c and by L M Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), p.59, no.37, the latter sold by Bonhams on 1 October 2003, lot 132.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

An Edwardian silver sugar bowl by Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Company Ltd, London 1908, with a gadrooned rim, embossed and pierced with a woman holding a crook, a man playing a musical instrument, a cow, a sheep, a bird, buildings, trees and scrolls, with a blue glass liner, 8cm high, 9.3cm dia, silver 150g, and a silver plated spoon

A Regency string inlaid Pollard tea caddy of sarcophagus form, with brass handles and mounts, the hinged lid enclosing a glass bowl, flanked by lidded compartments, on ball feet, 15cm high, 30.5cm wide