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Ceramics and glassware to include a George Jones majolica jug cracked, an Orrefors glass bowl, a pair of pottery monkeys and other items, most items A/F

Mixed domestic glass to include brandy balloons and cocktail glasses, together with frosted highball glasses depicting painted ladies in costume, a punch bowl and dish

A GLASS PUNCH BOWL SET

Magicians' Objects A group of magician's tricks and equipment to include: Lubor Die; pair Don Alan Ranch Birds; die and ribbon; six various turned wood cups and covers; set hardwood balls on string, one textured; hydrostatic glass; John Corenelius toe switch; Chinese cube; coin tumber; ribbon and silk; copper Rahman rice bowls; and other metal bowls; Protean cabinet (Ex Grossman collection); various glass, bottle and cylinder tricks; Davenport model swinging card trick; Fantasmas Buddha Chop cup; hardwood stereoscope viewer; "Demon" Goldfish Production Bowl. Faust", with metal hinged lid topped glass goldfish bowl, printed instruction, and bait, in black painted wooden box; etc. etc. (Qty)Footnote: Provenance: From the collection of the Late Trevor Dawson

1935 glass bowl with plated rim servers. Not available for in-house P&P.

Glassware - a cut glass ship's decanter, silver collar, Birmingham 1988; a Waterford crystal cut glass ship's decanter and stopper; a pair of ovoid cut glass decanters, drop in stoppers; Brierley cut glass drinking glasses, other brandy balloons, pedestal fruit bowl, vases, jug, bon-bon dish, sundae dishes; qty

Graham Enevundon, Four Signed Limited Edition Prints including ' Red Bank ' no.201/350, ' Summer Meadows ' no. 152/350, ' Daisy Bowl ' no. 152/250 and ' Marigolds ' no.135/350, largest 55cms x 40cms, one with cracked glass

Two silver mounted cut glass dressing table bottles, the larger one 1905, and an embossed bowl, tallest 5cmCondition report: Two scent bottles appear ok, bowl bent and crooked

Two Peking glass items, a yellow and red vase, 25.5cm tall and a red bowl, decorated with fish, 12.5cm diameterCondition report: Both appear to be in good condition.

A Whitefriars textured bark glass bowl, diam. 20cm.

A LARGE CUT GLASS BOWL

A QUANTITY OF GLASSWARE TO INCLUDE CLEAR MIXED ITEMS, ROSE TINT LAMP AND BOWL, GREEN GLASS BOWLS ETC.

A SET OF SIX CUT GLASS WINE GOBLETS AND A BOHEMIA CUT CRYSTAL BOWL

AN ASSORTMENT OF ITEMS TO INCLUDE GLASS ROSE BOWL, A VASE ETC

Heavy glass gilt server bearing four gilt scent bottles, a frilled gilt vase, and a twin-handled gilt bowl with ormolu mounts.(B.P. 21% + VAT)

Tray of Victorian and other cranberry glass items to include 3 jugs and a frilled bowl, together with a Caithness art glass pedestal bowl and a flash-cut-style ruby and frosted glass mushroom shaped table lamp. (6)(B.P. 21% + VAT)

Three boxes of assorted china, glass and other items, to include coffee cans and saucers, Portmeirion totem part coffee set with coffee pot, modern Oriental rice bowl, floral and other plates and jugs, glass bowls, etc. (3)(B.P. 21% + VAT)

A Chinese export silver bowl with glass liner, the pierced body decorated with bamboo leaves and birds, 12 cm diameter, 6 cm high, together with a cased set of silver coffee spoons, six loose Sterling silver coffee spoons, a salt and a Contiental white metal bowl on three feet, various dates and makers, 14 ozt. of weighable silver.Qty: Qty

A Continental 'Sterling' silver oval dish, 32.5 cm long, (5.5 ozt), together with a Albert Hubner (German) filigree white metal stand with swing handle, containing a hobnail cut glass bowl, 14 cm high (handle up) and a further filigree pedestal basket (a/f).Qty: 3

A large clear glass table centre pedestal bowl, diameter 29cm, height 27cm

Gozo glass pot, 6.cm, an Art glass bowl, Caithness paperweight etc

A large heavy cut-glass bowl, diameter 29cm, a frilled glass bowl, and collection of drinking glasses

A pair of cut-glass decanters and stoppers, 22cm, 2 others, a Victorian bowl and a Victorian blue and white transfer printed vegetable tureen and cover

Vintage Kitchenalia including a large wooden dough bowl 47 x 32 cms and a carved wooden spoon approx 50 cms in length together with a pickle crock with wooden lid, measuring 40 h x 32 d cms, together with a glass Queen Victoria Jubilee bread plate. 

A Beilby enamelled opaque twist wine glass, circa 1765The ogee bowl painted with fruiting vine in opaque white, set on a double-series stem containing a multi-ply corkscrew encircled by a pair of opaque white spiral tapes, over a conical foot, 14.4cm highFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

An exceptional façon de Venise gilded, enamelled and engraved vase and cover, Court Glasshouse, Innsbruck, circa 1570-91The shouldered ovoid bowl applied with three gilt raspberry prunts, decorated with two central bands of gilt and low-fired enamel foliate scrollwork panels alternating with similar panels in diamond-point, all between formal engraved borders, the rim with a formal foliate border above a gilt and enamel spiral band, set on a collar above a small cushion and a globular knop, the hollow stem moulded with two lion masks flanking scroll motifs all between gadrooned borders, the folded conical foot engraved with a band of false gadroons, the double-domed cover with a knopped finial, applied with three prunts and similarly decorated, 31.5cm high (2)Footnotes:ProvenanceRev. William Fraine Fortescue Collection, Chesterton, Oxfordshire, sold circa 1889Lady 'Lili' Maria Elisabeth Augusta Cartwright (née von Sandizell)Thence by descent to her son, William Cornwallis Cartwright, Aynhoe Park, OxfordshireThence by family descent to the present ownerAn old paper label attached to the foot of this vase records its provenance thus: 'Bought in Chesterton at sale of Rev- Fortescue late incumbent of that Parish'. William Fraine Fortescue (1810-1889) was the second son of William Fortescue of Writtle Lodge, Essex. He was a fellow of New College, Oxford, from 1828-50 and became vicar of Chesterton in 1849.In 1570 Archduke Ferdinand II of Tyrol founded a glasshouse in the garden of his home at Schloss Ambras, Innsbruck, having become increasingly dissatisfied with the glass made in Hall and a continued reliance on Venice for luxury tableware for use at his new residence. Through negotiations with the Venetian authorities, he secured the temporary loan of craftsmen from Murano and obtained permission to use various raw materials and tools brought from Venice. Although never commercially viable, a number of Venetian master glassblowers were recorded at Innsbruck including Pietro d'Orso (1571), Salvatore Savonetti (1573-75 and 1578) and his father Bastian (1578) and Andrea Tudin (1575 and 1583), all of whom returned to Murano once they had honoured their contracts. The Archduke also employed around 50 painters each with different artistic talents, who were most likely German. The cold-painted decoration on these wares was usually executed in red, green and gold, reflecting Germanic taste.The long accepted attribution to the Court Glasshouse at Innsbruck for this unusual group of glass, with its distinctive grey tint and its cold-painted and diamond-point engraved decoration, has been debated and a tentative attribution to Venice suggested by some scholars, see Anna-Elisabeth Theuerkauff-Liederwald, Venezianisches Glas der Veste Coburg (1994), p.242. The Archduke continued to purchase Venetian pieces after the opening of his own Glasshouse, see Erwin Baumgartner, Verre de Venise et façon de Venise (1995), p.99. This included '10 vergoldete Deckelpokale' in 1575 which may correspond to covered vases of this type, see Erich Egg, Die Glashütten zu Hall und Innsbruck (1962), p.45. Although probably made as reliquaries, still-life paintings from the early 17th century show vessels of similar shape without decoration containing wine.For comparable examples with lion mask stems in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, see Egg (1962), nos.27, 34 and 35. Another in blue glass from the Ernesto Wolf Collection, now in the Landesmuseum Württemberg, is illustrated by Brigitte Klesse and Hans Mayr, European Glass from 1500-1800 (1987), no.35. Other comparable examples without lion mask stems are illustrated by Egg (1962), nos.30-33, by Rainer Ruckert, Die Glassammlung des Bayersischen Nationalmuseums München, vol.I (1982), no.147, by Rudolf von Strasser and Walter Spiegl, Dekoriertes Glas (1989), p.163, no.6, and by Olga Drahotova, Europäisches Glas (1982), p.37, no.12. See also the example from the Mühleib Collection sold by Bonhams on 2 May 2013, lot 6 and that in the Museo del Vetro di Murano (accession no. Cl.VI n.01124) illustrated by Attilia Dorigato, Il Museo vetrario di Murano (1986), pl.21. An example without decoration from Aynhoe park was sold by Sotheby's on 14 July 1975, lot 322. Further similarly decorated examples with lion mask stems but of cylindrical form are illustrated by Egg (1962), nos.36 and 41 and another from the Mühleib Collection was sold by Bonhams on 2 May 2013, lot 5.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Five opaque twist wine glasses, circa 1760-65Comprising a 'Lynn' glass with a bowl moulded with a series of horizontal bands, the stem containing an eleven-ply spiral band around a pair of spiral tapes, 14.2cm high, a pan-topped glass on a stem containing four entwined gauze corkscrews, 15.6cm high, a glass with an ogee bowl engraved with a continuous stag hunting scene, the stem containing two five-ply bands around a pair of spiral ribbons, 14.9cm high, one with a round funnel bowl on a multi-spiral stem with a central swelling knop, 15cm high, and another with an ovoid bowl on a stem with a pair of solid multi-ply bands around a central multi-ply corkscrew, 13.7cm high (5)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

An unusual Jacobite engraved wine glass, circa 1745-50The slender waisted bell bowl with a solid base, decorated with a 'hundred-petalled' rose on a thorny stem with a curious empty bud, on a plain stem and conical foot, 17.6cm highFootnotes:A similarly glass from the Michael Buckingham Collection was sold by Bonhams on 14 November 2018, lot 96. For a discussion of 'empty bud' glasses see Arthur Churchill, Glass Notes, no.11 (December 1951), pp.18-21 and fig.26 for a similar glass.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A spaced millefiori scent bottle from the workshop of Friedrich Egermann, Haida, circa 1845In clear glass, the slightly tapered cylindrical form with a variety of complex canes in red, green, blue and opaque white, with embossed white metal mounts, 10.7cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceSotheby's sale, 2 July 1979, lot 177 (part)A similarly decorated decanter and a sugar bowl and cover from the workshop of Friedrich Egermann, both of which contain several canes identical to those on the present lot, are illustrated and discussed by Peter von Brackel, Classic Paperweights from Silesia/Bohemia (2010), pp.206-9, figs.416-9. Compare also to the paperweight from the Egermann workshop on pp.212-3, figs.429-33.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Three glasses with twist stems, mid-18th centuryComprising an airtwist wine glass with a pan-topped bowl lightly moulded with a honeycomb pattern around the lower part, the stem with a pair of entwined multi-spiral gauze cables, 15.8cm high, a mixed twist wine glass with an ogee bowl, the stem containing intricate air and opaque twist corkscrews, 14.6cm high, and an airtwist cordial glass with a round funnel bowl lightly moulded with basal flutes, the double-series stem containing a pair of mercurial corkscrews encircled by two six-ply spiral bands, 16.2cm high (3)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Three engraved wine glasses, second half 19th centuryDecorated in 18th century style, comprising a Williamite glass by Franz Tieze, the conical bowl with an equestrian portrait of the King inscribed 'THE GLORIOUS MEMORY OF KING WILLIAM III', the reverse with 'BOYNE 1ST JULY 1690' over 'HLStG', on a plain swelling stem between collars and a conical folded foot, 15.9cm high, a glass of Jacobite interest, the round funnel bowl with a portrait of Prince Charles Edward Stuart within a laurel wreath beneath the inscription 'AUDENTIOR IBO', flanked by heraldic rose sprays, with a thistle and star to the reverse, on a stem with four beaded knops, 15.5cm high, and a pro-Hanoverian glass, the round funnel bowl with the Horse of Hanover below a banderole inscribed 'LIBERTY', the reverse with a thorny rose spray, the plain stem with shoulder and central knops, 16.9cm highFootnotes:It is likely that the initials 'HLStG' on the Williamite glass are those of Henry Lucas St George (1781-1872), clergyman for Dromore in West Tyrone, Ireland. Reverend St George was a Grand Chaplain in the Orange Order, a Protestant fraternal order in Northern Ireland, the name of which is a tribute to the Protestant King William III and his defeat over the Catholic King James II in the Williamite–Jacobite War (1688–1691). Tieze is known to have supplied Orange Order lodges with engraved glasses of this type.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Jacobite engraved wine glass, circa 1750The slender bell bowl with an eight-petalled heraldic rose and one closed bud, on a plain stem and conical foot, 16.8cm highFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

An engraved opaque twist goblet and two wine glasses, circa 1765The goblet with a generous ogee bowl decorated with a floral spray and a bird in flight beneath a formal border, the stem containing two solid multi-ply corkscrews around a pair of spiral tapes, over a conical foot, 17.7cm high, together with a heavy wine glass, the bell bowl with a solid beaded base, the stem with a multi-ply corkscrew encircled by a pair of spiral threads, on a conical foot, 16.9cm high, and another with a bell bowl, the shoulder-knopped stem enclosing an opaque white gauze corkscrew, on a conical foot, 15cm high (3)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

An important Venetian enamelled and gilded tazza, first quarter 16th centuryThe broad shallow tray painted to the centre with a circular medallion of a stag recumbent on grass beneath a radiant sun, within white and red line borders, the rim with a gilt scale band embellished with blue-and-white dots flanked by red dots, within blue-and-white dot borders, on a low folded spreading foot, 24.5cm diam, 5.9cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceLady 'Lili' Maria Elisabeth Augusta Cartwright (née von Sandizell)Thence by descent to her son, William Cornwallis Cartwright, Aynhoe Park, OxfordshireThence by family descent to the present ownerThis tazza belongs to a distinctive group of vessels all painted with medallions in a very similar style and palette dating to the first quarter of the 16th century. A small number of these include deer or stags. See for example the jug with a stag to one side and a lion to the other in the Victoria and Albert Museum (accession no. 681-1884), illustrated by Barovier Mentasti et al., Mille Anni di Arte del Vetro a Venezia (1982), pp.102-4, no.112, the honeycomb-moulded tazza with a standing stag from the Salomon De Rothschild collection in the Louvre (accession no. OA 1976), and the large pitcher with a recumbent stag from the M Émile Gavet Collection sold by Galerie Georges Petit in Paris in 1897, lot 585 (present whereabouts unknown).For a tazza of identical form with a similar border to the rim, see that with a medallion of a recumbent doe to the centre in the Corning Museum of Glass (accession no. 2002.3.36). Another of very similar form with a swan or pelican is illustrated by Erwin Baumgartner, Reflets de Venise (2015), pp.57-9, no.11, where the dating of tazzas such as this is also discussed. Compare also to the tazza with a pelican or swan in the Victoria and Albert Museum (accession no. C.2475-1910).Other tazzas painted with female deer include a rib-moulded example in the British Museum (accession no. S.377) illustrated by Hugh Tait, The Golden Age of Venetian Glass (1979), p.29, no.5, one in the former Royal Scottish Museum, illustrated in the Journal of Glass Studies, vol.5 (1963), p.147, no.29, and a bowl with a standing doe in a quatrefoil cartouche sold by Sotheby's on 26 May 1981, lot 204. Tazzas of different form with medallions of other animals all painted beneath a sun in a strikingly similar style are cited by Dwight Lanmon and David Whitehouse, Glass in the Robert Lehman Collection (1993), p.33, and by Baumgartner (2015), p.59.The treatment of the grass, painted in bright green with tiny lines or shapes painted in black, together with the rendition of the sun with distinctive linear dashed rays, is consistent with all of the vessels aforementioned. It is therefore probable that they were decorated in the same workshop in Venice, perhaps even by the same hand. The treatment of the grass can be further compared to the Venetian enamelled goblet sold by Bonhams on 21 May 2014, lot 35. It is perhaps interesting to note that with the exception of the jug with the stag and lion in the Victoria and Albert Museum, all of the recorded vessels differ slightly from the present lot in the addition of water to the foreground.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A façon de Venise wine glass, late 17th centuryNetherlands or possibly English, the conical bowl with a solid base, set on a hollow quatrefoil knop resting on a collar or merese above a short plain section, over a wide conical folded foot, 13.9cm highFootnotes:A similar glass from the Smith Collection and Harvey's Wine Museum is illustrated by L.M. Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), p.57, no.27. A diamond-point engraved example was exhibited by John P Smith in Mallett's Masterpieces from Holland Exhibition (1990), no.8, together with an image of Woman Drinking with Soldiers by Pieter de Hooch painted in 1658 showing a glass of similar shape. A larger example from the Peter Lole Collection was sold by Bonhams on 5 June 2019, lot 8.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A rare Jacobite engraved airtwist wine glass, circa 1750Probably for the 'Oak Society', the drawn trumpet bowl with a six-petalled rose on a thorny stem with two buds, one open and one closed, the reverse inscribed 'Fiat' below the rim, on a multi-spiral stem, the conical foot inscribed 'Redi' between a spray of two oak leaves, 15.3cm highFootnotes:The Oak Society was a Jacobite club whose purpose is thought to have been to raise money for Charles Edward Stuart's attempt to stimulate another rising following the defeat at Culloden, beginning with his secret visit to London in September 1750 (the so-called Elibank plot). They met at the Crown & Anchor tavern on the corner of Arundel Street and the Strand. A similar glass from the Henry Fox Collection was sold by Bonhams on 8 December 2004, lot 73 and again on 6 June 2007, lot 25. Another from the Seton Veitch Collection was sold by Bonhams on 3 June 2009, lot 191 and is illustrated by Delomosne and Son in their 2006 catalogue, pl.11. According to Geoffrey Seddon, The Jacobites and their Drinking Glasses (1995), the decoration may be attributed to Engraver B. Seddon illustrates a similar glass without 'Fiat' at p.114, col. pl.26.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, 18.1cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceLady 'Lili' Maria Elisabeth Augusta Cartwright (née von Sandizell)Thence by descent to her son, William Cornwallis Cartwright, Aynhoe Park, OxfordshireThence by family descent to the present ownerTwo very similar glasses are in the Museo del Vetro di Murano (accession 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 and an example with engraved decoration on p.264, no.245. See also the two glasses in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris (accession nos. A62.1.A and A62.1.B) illustrated by Erwin Baumgartner, Venise et Façon de Venise (2003), p.99, no.44.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Bohemian overlay pedestal bowl, circa 1860In green glass overlaid in opaque white, the bowl with a scalloped rim and a flared foot, the sides with eight arched panels alternately painted with sprays of flowers or cut with quatrefoil motifs with gilt ornament, the integrated tall pedestal base of capstan form, reserved with two large oval panels, one painted with flowers and the other cut with a stylised floral motif, profusely decorated with gilt scrolling foliage and with a formal petal band to the foot, 33.5cm highFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A colour twist wine glass, circa 1765The round funnel bowl moulded with fine flutes around the lower part, the stem with a central pair of translucent blue spiral tapes encircled by a fifteen-ply opaque white spiral band, over a conical foot, 14.1cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceWith Delomosne and Son, 1995This 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 façon de Venise wine glass, second half 17th centuryThe paper-thin U-shaped bowl of generous size, on a hollow inverted baluster stem between collars, over an equally thin conical foot, 15cm highFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

An ale glass, a wine or toasting glass and two wine flutes with twist stems, circa 1750-65The ale with an elongated ogee bowl, engraved with hops and crossed ears of barley, on an opaque twist stem with a pair of ribbon tapes around a central opaque white corkscrew, 19cm high, the toasting glass of typical slender drawn trumpet shape, the opaque twist stem containing a gauze corkscrew, 17.8cm high, the two flutes with tall waisted bell bowls, one on an opaque twist stem with a central corkscrew encircled by a pair of spiral threads, 19.2cm high, the other on an airtwist stem containing a pair of entwined mercurial corkscrews, 19.1cm high (4)Footnotes:ProvenanceJeffrey Rose Collection, Sotheby's sale, 6 March 1978, lot 71 (toasting glass)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A colour twist wine glass, circa 1765The round funnel bowl on a stem with a white spiral ribbon edged on both sides in blue, alternating with an opaque white spiral gauze, over a conical foot, 14.5cm highFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

An engraved light baluster wine glass, circa 1750The bell bowl with a formal border of scrolled diaper panels alternating with floral sprays below the rim, set on a beaded cushion knop above a triple-annulated knop and teared inverted baluster section terminating with a basal knop, over a conical foot, 17.5cm highFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Jacobite engraved airtwist wine glass, circa 1750The waisted bell bowl solid at the base, with a formal seven-petalled rose and one closed bud on a thorny stem, a small moth to the reverse, on a shoulder-knopped multi-spiral stem and conical foot, 18.8cm highFootnotes:It is relatively unusual to find a rose with seven petals. According to Geoffrey B Seddon, The Jacobites and Their Drinking Glasses (1995), the engraving may be attributed to Engraver A in the author's nomenclature.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

An important wine glass commemorating Sir William Howe and the capture of New York, circa 1776The ogee bowl engraved with the crowned cipher 'GR' above 'God Save the King' to one side, the other inscribed 'SUCCESS TO SIR WILLIAM HOWE/ SAVIOUR OF NEW YORK' beneath the rim, the base of the bowl cut with a band of circlets between petal facets, the faceted stem with a central swelling knop, over a conical foot, 14.7cm highFootnotes:ProvenancePrivate collection, London, formed 1960s-80sRecently discovered in a provincial auction in Berkshire, this unrecorded glass is an important commemorative piece. General Sir William Howe (1729-1814) was a distinguished veteran of the French and Indian War who, in 1775, was appointed Commander in Chief of His Majesty's forces in America during the Revolutionary War. Charged with combating rebellion and maintaining peace between Britain and its colonies, Howe's first major battles against his American counterpart, General George Washington, came during the Patriot siege of Boston and included the Battle of Bunker Hill. They proved to be disappointing failures that resulted in the British retreat from Boston in March 1776.That Summer Howe sailed for New York, chosen as the new base of operations owing to its strategic location. In August 1776 Howe and the British Army were victorious over Washington and the Continental Army at the Battle of Long Island, for which he was made a Knight of the Order of the Bath and which the present glass would appear to commemorate. That September he lead another British invasion of New York City in the Battle of Harlem Heights, the result of which restored the confidence of the Continental Army in what was Washington's first success of the War.Howe again defeated Washington at the Battles of Brandywine in September 1777 and Germantown in October 1777, but went on to launch an attack against Philadelphia instead of coming to the aid of British General John Burgoyne at the Battles of Saratoga as planned. Without the support of Howe and his men, the British army at Saratoga was overwhelmed and forced to surrender to American General Horatio Gates that October. This American victory was one of the turning points of the Revolutionary War, which ultimately led to the Declaration of Independence and the loss of thirteen colonies.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

An engraved heavy baluster 'Liberty' goblet, circa 1710-20The round funnel bowl solid at the base, finely decorated with the White Horse of Hanover rearing up on a sward, inscribed 'AUREA LIBERTAS' in diamond-point below, the stem with a teared angular knop over a teared ball knop and folded conical foot, 17.6cm high, the footrim with inventory number 'INV.9646' in blackFootnotes:This glass belongs to a small but distinct group of English heavy baluster glasses of very similar size and form with wheel-engraved decoration and diamond-point inscriptions in Latin. A comparable goblet depicting David and Goliath with the inscription 'AMICITAE', possibly by the same hand, was sold by Bonhams on 20 May 2015, lot 31 and is illustrated by Dwight Lanmon, The Golden Age of English Glass (2011), pp.140-1, no.41. Lanmon states that the quality of the engraving suggests the work of someone trained on the Continent, and whilst most Dutch-engraved glasses bear wheel-engraved inscriptions, inscriptions in diamond-point are known and are not a uniquely English feature.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A baluster wine glass and a light baluster glass, circa 1715 and 1745One with a conical bowl with a solid teared base, set on a six-sided moulded stem with diamonds at the shoulder, over a folded conical foot, 17cm high, the other with a bell bowl on a tall slender multi-knopped stem with an angular knop above a true baluster between triple and double annulated knops, over a conical foot, 17.4cm high (2)Footnotes:ProvenanceWith Brian Watson, Marsham, 28 April 2000 (moulded-stem glass)With William MacAdam, Edinburgh, 12 November 1994 (light baluster glass)Basil Jefferies CollectionFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

An engraved 'Friendly Hunt' firing glass of Jacobite interest, circa 1750The drawn trumpet bowl inscribed 'THE FRIENDLY HUNT' flanking a floral sprig, on a short plain stem and heavy conical foot, 9cm highFootnotes:The Friendly Hunt was a Worcestershire meet probably connected with a Jacobite society in Worcester known as The Friendly Association. Founded in 1747, the Association met annually in rotation in the neighbouring towns of Droitwich, Bromsgrove, Kidderminster and Stourbridge. A similar firing glass from The Ron and Mary Thomas Collection was sold by Bonhams on 4 June 2008 and is illustrated by Geoffrey Seddon, The Jacobites and Their Drinking Glasses (1995), p.120, pl.86 and by Arthur Churchill, History in Glass (1937), pl.20, no.92. Together with the present lot only a handful of other examples exist including one in the Victoria and Albert Museum (accession no. C.257-1925) and one in the Harding Collection, Christ Church College, Oxford. For further details see Peter Lole, A Digest of the Jacobite Clubs, Royal Stuart Society Paper LV (1999).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Jacobite engraved opaque twist wine glass, circa 1760The bell bowl with a six-petalled rose on a thorny leafy stem with one closed bud and one open bud, a moth to the reverse, set on a double-series stem containing a central gauze corkscrew encircled by a pair of opaque white spiral tapes, over a conical foot, 17.3cm highFootnotes:According to Geoffrey B Seddon, The Jacobites and Their Drinking Glasses (1995), the engraving may be attributed to Engraver F in the author's nomenclature.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A rare Catalan (Barcelona) façon de Venise footed bowl, 16th centuryOf straw tint, the circular bowl with an everted rim, moulded around the centre with twenty slightly spiralling ribs beneath a thin trailed band in opaque white and a thicker band in translucent blue, the folded rim enclosing a further translucent blue trail, set on a hollow shaped pedestal foot with a central swelling knop and moulded with twenty vertical ribs, above an opaque white trailed thread, the folded footrim enclosing a further trail in opaque white, 24.1cm diam, 18.3cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceLady 'Lili' Maria Elisabeth Augusta Cartwright (née von Sandizell)Thence by descent to her son, William Cornwallis Cartwright, Aynhoe Park, OxfordshireThence by family descent to the present ownerThe straw tint of the present lot is reminiscent of much 16th century Spanish glass. Together with the distinctive foot formation and opaque white trailed decoration, this suggests a Spanish origin, probably Barcelona. It has close similarities to the bowl illustrated and discussed by Anna-Elisabeth Theuerkauff-Liederwald, Venezianisches Glas der Veste Coburg (1994), pp.103-4, no.40, also attributed to Catalonia. Another similar bowl is in the Museo de las Artes Decorativas in Barcelona, illustrated and discussed by Dwight P Lanmon, Glass in the Robert Lehman Collection (1993), p.116, fig.39.5, alongside several coloured glass ewers with feet of similar form.The majority of known vessels with this distinctive foot shape are in blue glass with opaque white decoration. A small blue glass bowl attributed to Cadalso is in the Museu Episcopal de Vic in Barcelona (accession no. MEV 225), and another is in the Museo del Vetro di Murano (accession no. Cl.VI n.483) illustrated by Barovier Mentasti et al., Mille Anni di Arte del Vetro a Venezia (1982), p.102, no.111. Compare also to the blue glass bowl and ewer in the Museo Poldi Pezzoli in Milan (accession nos. 1250 and 1269).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

An engraved bowl by Peter Dreiser, dated 1989Of shallow circular form, naturalistically decorated to the exterior with a continuous band of flowering fuchsias, the interior with four small insects in flight and sparse shading corresponding to the edges of the leaves beneath, 29.8cm diam, signed 'P. Dreiser 89' inside the footrimFootnotes:Of German origin, Peter Dreiser (1936-2006) was one of Britain's foremost late 20th century engravers. For an appreciation of his work, see Charles Hajdamach, 20th Century British Glass (2009), p.249-53.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 composite-stem wine glass and two light baluster glasses, circa 1750-60The composite-stem glass with a lipped trumpet bowl solid at the base, set on a cushion knop over a multi-spiral airtwist baluster stem, on a conical foot, 17.6cm high, together with a light baluster wine glass, the bell bowl engraved to the rim with three diaper panels alternating with floral sprays, the slender stem with angular and cushion knops above a beaded inverted baluster and basal knop, on a conical foot, 18.4cm high, and a light baluster goblet, the bell bowl on a stem with a central knop between opposing balusters, over a domed foot, 18.8cm high (3)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A façon de Venise winged tazza, 17th centuryThe wide shallow terraced bowl with an undulating rim and moulded with fifteen ribs, set on a slender hollow inverted baluster stem between collars, applied with two opposing pale yellow trailed wings with pincered ornament in clear glass, on a wide conical foot, 14.1cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceLady 'Lili' Maria Elisabeth Augusta Cartwright (née von Sandizell)Thence by descent to her son, William Cornwallis Cartwright, Aynhoe Park, OxfordshireThence by family descent to the present ownerAnother tazza from this collection with a bowl of very similar form was sold by Sotheby's on 14 July 1975, lot 293. Compare also to the example in the British Museum (accession no. S.471) illustrated by Hugh Tait, The Golden Age of Venetian Glass (1979), p.52, no.52 and that from the Walter F Smith Collection sold by Sotheby's on 8 July 1968, lot 908 and illustrated by E Barrington Haynes, Glass Through the Ages (1959), pl.28c. Another in the Fitzwilliam Museum (accession no. C.118.1912) is illustrated in the catalogue (1978), p.70, no.147.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Carreg Cennen: A stipple engraved goblet by Simon Whistler, executed in 1989The shape designed by Laurence Whistler, the generous bucket bowl engraved with a view of Carreg Cennen Castle towering above the valley floor with a stream beneath, sunlit hills beneath a cloudy sky in the distance, a bird in flight above, on a teared knop, trumpet stem and folded foot, titled and monogrammed 'SW' to the foot, 27cm high, sold together with the book illustrating the goblet and signed by the artist, edition 117/200 (2)Footnotes:ProvenanceHassan Shaida CollectionIllustrated by Simon Whistler, On a Glass Lightly (2004), p.77, where the artist describes the piece thus... 'The difficulty here was to convey the enormous height of the castle above the valley floor with its stream. Early sunlight pours down the hill opposite'. The goblet is one of a series of seven depicting Welsh landscapes inspired by J M W Turner's sketching trips to Wales, resulting from a tour of Wales in 1988 in which Whistler retraced a route taken by Turner in 1798.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 engraved airtwist cordial glass, circa 1750The short drawn trumpet bowl with a small bird perched on a floral spray, the stem enclosing a pair of mercurial corkscrew threads, over a conical foot, 17cm highFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Three opaque twist wine glasses and an ale glass, circa 1765One with a bell bowl engraved with fruiting vine, on a single-series stem containing a multi-ply corkscrew, 17.1cm high, one with a bell bowl on a shoulder-knopped double-series stem with a central gauze core encircled by a pair of seven-ply spiral bands, 16.9cm high, and one with an ogee bowl on a double-series stem with a central gauze core encircled by a pair of eight-ply spiral bands, 14.3cm high, the ale with an elongated ogee bowl engraved with hops and crossed ears of barley, on a double-series stem with a multi-ply corkscrew encircled by a pair of nine-ply spiral bands, 20.2cm high (4)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

An unusual Dutch engraved goblet, circa 1740-50The glass probably Saxon, the bell bowl with a rooster perched upon a barrel, a bale and crate to either side, flanked by palm fronds and baskets of flowers, the rim inscribed 'DE GOEDE NEGOTIE' (Good Trade), on a hollow multi-knopped stem and conical foot, 19.3cm highFootnotes:It is possible that the engraving represents the Gallic Rooster, symbolising trade with France.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Williamite engraved wine glass, circa 1740The drawn trumpet bowl with a continuous band of fruiting vine beneath the inscription 'The Glorious Memory of King William', on a tall plain stem and conical foot, 17.6cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceThe Ron and Mary Thomas Collection, Bonhams sale, 4 June 2008, lot 79For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Two Giles gilded wine glasses, circa 1765-70One with an ogee bowl with mixed floral sprays and smaller sprigs beneath a gilt rim, on a double-series opaque twist stem with a multi-ply corkscrew encircled by a fifteen-ply spiral band, 15.2cm high, the other with a round funnel bowl with flowers and insects beneath a gilt rim, on a diamond faceted stem extending into the base of the bowl, 15.2cm high (2)Footnotes:ProvenanceChris Crabtree Collection, Bonhams sale, 19 May 2010, lot 84 (facet stem glass)Bonhams sale, 6 June 2007, lot 13 (opaque twist glass)Henry Fox Collection, Bonhams sale, 2 June 2004, lot 84 (opaque twist glass)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Five airtwist wine glasses and a flute, circa 1750With multi-spiral stems, comprising a wine glass with a round funnel bowl on a stem with shoulder and central knops, 16.4cm high, a wine or ale flute with a tall conical bowl, 19.9cm high, and three wine glasses with drawn trumpet bowls, 16.1-16.8cm high (5)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com