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A rare Beilby enamelled opaque twist wine glass, circa 1765The ogee bowl painted in opaque white with a landscape featuring classical ruins, including three classical columns supporting a pediment, flanked by trees and shrubs, the rim with faint traces of gilding, the double-series stem with a pair of heavy spiral tapes encircled by two multi-ply spiral bands, over a conical foot, 14.4cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceBonhams, 17 December 2008, lot 243This glass is from a series of Beilby glasses enamelled with classical ruins. A wine glass with particularly similar decoration in the Fitzwilliam Museum (inv. no.C.400-1961) is illustrated by James Rush, The Ingenious Beilbys (1973), p.124, no.71b. See also the example from the Darell Thompson-Schwab Collection sold by Bonhams on 21 June 2022, lot 99.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Dutch engraved light baluster betrothal glass, circa 1750-60The round funnel bowl with a landscape vignette depicting a pair of flaming hearts surmounting a column, flanked on each side by three trees, all on an elaborate bracket hung with swags of pearls and flanked by foliate scrollwork, inscribed 'IK BEMIN MAAR EEN' (I Only Love One) to the reverse, the slender stem with an upper angular knop above a beaded inverted baluster terminating in a basal knop, over a conical foot, 18cm highFootnotes:ProvenancePrivate British CollectionFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Three colour twist wine glasses, circa 1765 and laterComprising two Dutch examples in soda glass, both with bell bowls, one on a stem with shoulder and central knops, the central gauze column encircled by blue, red, pale blue and white spiral threads, 16.2cm high, the other with a pair of translucent red and a pair of opaque white spiral threads around a gauze column, 16cm high, together with a later example with a round funnel bowl engraved with fruiting vine, the stem with a central translucent red core encircled by an eleven-ply spiral band of alternating fine amethyst and opaque white threads, 14.1cm high (3)Footnotes:ProvenancePrivate London CollectionFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A red colour twist wine glass, circa 1765The ogee bowl on a stem with a central loose opaque white lace twist within a heavy pair of translucent ruby-red spiral threads, one encircled by a three-ply spiral band, over a conical foot, 13.1cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceSotheby's, 26 July 1965, lot 110Sotheby's, 18 July 1977, lot 155Private London CollectionFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A rare green and pink colour twist wine glass, circa 1765Of attractive small size, the bucket bowl with a solid base, raised on a short stem containing a central multi-ply corkscrew edged on both sides in translucent green, encircled by alternating spiral threads in translucent pink and opaque white, over a conical foot, 11.5cm highFootnotes:ProvenancePrivate London CollectionFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A rare and attractive airtwist goblet, circa 1740-50The bell bowl unusually moulded with twenty vertical flutes, set on a double collar above a multi-spiral airtwist inverted baluster stem and conical foot, 20.7cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceSeton Veitch CollectionWith Delomosne and Son, 27 September 2006Leuba CollectionLiteratureDelomosne and Son, The Seton Veitch Collection (2006), no.27aA similar glass from the Walter F Smith Collection was sold by Sotheby's on 18 March 1968, lot 463.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 Giles gilded opaque twist goblet, circa 1765Decorated in the London workshop of James Giles, the generous ogee bowl decorated with a meandering branch of fruiting vine below a gilt rim, the double-series stem with a pair of heavy opaque white multi-ply tapes encircling a further pair of heavy multi-ply tapes, over a conical foot, 18.9cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceHoneybourne Museum, Royal Brierley Collection, Sotheby's, 3 March 1998, lot 68 (part)With Delomosne and Son, 7 November 2005Leuba CollectionExhibitedStourbridge, Festival of Britain Exhibition, 1951, catalogue no.1, pl.1A very similar glass is illustrated by Derek C Davis and Keith Middlemas, Coloured Glass (1968), p.64 and another by E Barrington Haynes, Glass Through the Ages (1959), pl.45d.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 very rare tartan colour twist wine glass, circa 1765The round funnel bowl on a single-series stem comprising four alternating pairs of spiral threads in translucent blue, translucent red, translucent green, and opaque white, over a conical foot, 15cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceAlexander CollectionWith Asprey, 1986Private London CollectionLiteratureL M Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), p.235, no.719ExhibitedAsprey, '100 British Glasses', 1985, catalogue pp.24-5, no.34It is very unusual to find a colour twist glass such as this with no central series in the stem.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A very rare engraved triple-series blue colour twist wine glass, circa 1765Of attractive small size, the ovoid bowl with a continuous band of fruiting vine below the rim, on a stem with two pairs of opaque white spiral threads within a pair of four-ply spiral bands, all encircling a rich translucent cobalt-blue undulating column, over a conical foot, 12.4cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceSotheby's 7 March 1977, lot 185Private London CollectionTriple-series colour twist wine glasses are amongst the rarest, with very few examples recorded. A virtually identical glass with different engraved decoration was sold by Christie's on 18 May 1999, lot 307.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A red colour twist wine glass, circa 1765The round funnel bowl on a slender stem containing a well-formed opaque white corkscrew edged on both sides in translucent ruby-red, alternating with a pair of opaque white spiral tapes, over a conical foot, 14.3cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceLeuba CollectionThis 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 rare English delftware punch ladle, circa 1750With a round bowl applied with a long slender handle, painted in blue with trailing foliage, the handle with blue dashes, 17.5cm longFootnotes:Punch ladles were made in silver and other materials, with a curled over terminal on the handles that allowed the ladles to be hung on the rim of a punchbowl. Related shapes are known in glass from the 18th century. A white saltglaze punch ladle was sold by Garry Atkins, An Exhibition of Five Hundred Years of English Pottery, (1992), p.18, no.46. No other English delftware punch ladle is apparently recorded. However, an interesting parallel might be drawn from the decoration on a Liverpool delftware bowl from the Olive Collection, sold by Bonhams on 31 January 2019, lot 118, contemporary with the present lot. The bowl is painted with a detailed scene after William Hogarth's 'A Midnight Modern Conversation' where the central figure ladles punch from a ceramic punch bowl, the ladle of indeterminate material.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A rare Dutch engraved Royal portrait light baluster wine glass, circa 1766-70The round funnel bowl with a half-length portrait of Prince William V of Orange and Nassau wearing the sash and Garter star, within a frame inscribed 'WILLEM D V/ PRINS VAN ORANIE EN NASSAU', surmounted by a crown and flanked by martial trophies, the slender multi-knopped stem with an upper angular knop above a beaded inverted baluster section flanked by knops, over a conical foot, 18.2cm highFootnotes:ProvenancePrivate British CollectionPrince William V of Orange-Nassau (1748-1806) was the son of Prince William IV (1711-1751) and Anne, daughter of King George II of Britain. Upon the death of his father, Anne reigned on her son's behalf until her own death in 1759, when the Duke of Brunswick assumed the role. On his eighteenth birthday in 1766, William V officially attained his majority and became an active Stadtholder.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 drop-knopped heavy baluster wine glass, circa 1720The thin tulip-shaped bowl with a solid base extending into a wide drop-knop containing a tear, above a short plain section, over a folded domed foot, 17.1cm highFootnotes:A virtually identical glass from the A C Hubbard Jr Collection is illustrated by Ward Lloyd, A Wine Lover's Glasses (2000), pp.33-4, pl.24(c) and was sold by Bonhams on 30 November 2011, lot 28. Two further similar glasses are illustrated by L M Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), pp.72-3, nos.84 and 86.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Dutch engraved light baluster wine glass, circa 1760The bell bowl with an elaborate border of baskets of fruit alternating with diaper panels hung with swags of pearls to the rim, on a slender multi-knopped stem with an angular shoulder knop above a cushion knop and a beaded inverted baluster terminating in a small basal knop, over a conical foot, 18.4cm highFootnotes:ProvenancePrivate British CollectionFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A fine and rare Dutch stipple-engraved Royal armorial light baluster wine glass by 'Gyrinus', circa 1765The round funnel bowl decorated in extremely fine diamond-point and stipple-engraving with the arms of Frederika Sophia Wilhelmina, Princess of Prussia and Orange-Nassau, the centre with a crowned medallion containing the Prussian eagle holding a sword and sceptre, within an elaborate scrollwork frame issuing scrolling flowers, surmounted by a crown, the stem with a beaded dumbbell knop above a teared inverted baluster terminating in a basal knop, over a conical foot, 19cm highFootnotes:ProvenancePrivate British CollectionWhilst he never signed any of his engravings, 'Gyrinus' is associated with designs on 24 extant goblets known as 'polder glasses', originally commissioned by members of the Water Board office 'De Hooge Maasdijk van Stad en Lande van Heusden' between 1762 and 1788, which were sold by Christie's as part of the Earl of Bradford Collection on 4 June 1985. These particular glasses are all partly, and a few wholly, line-engraved in very fine diamond-point. With a handful of exceptions, the engraved decoration is distinctive in the use of 'pseudo-stippling' in which the decoration is formed of a pattern of fine and dense lines which give the impression of stippling. The present lot appears to be unrecorded by F G A M Smit in his 1993 catalogue of Dutch Stipple-Engraved Glass. Smit records just twenty-eight glasses by this engraver, of which thirteen are armorial. This includes a light baluster engraved with the arms accollé of Prince Willem V and Princess Frederika Sophia Wilhelmina, see Smit (1993), p.183, no.Kd.1. As well as the style of the engraving, the form of this goblet is also characteristic of those preferred by 'Gyrinus'; all known examples have round funnel bowls on stems which are typically knopped. For another light baluster wine glass engraved with these arms, see Lot 80 in this sale.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Jacobite engraved wine glass, circa 1745The found funnel bowl with a six-petalled rose on a leafy stem with two buds, one closed and one open, the reverse with an oak leaf and 'Fiat', on a plain stem and conical foot, 14.9cm highFootnotes:According to Geoffrey B Seddon, The Jacobites and their Drinking Glasses (1995), the engraving might be attributable to Engraver C in the author's nomenclature.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A fine Dutch engraved light baluster wine glass, circa 1750The round funnel bowl finely engraved with a continuous seascape depicting three ships in full sail on undulating waves, the largest two three-masted, the stem with an upper teared angular knop between ball knops, above a central angular knop with a tear extending into a basal knop, over a conical foot, 19.4cm highFootnotes:ProvenancePrivate British CollectionFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A fine Dutch engraved Royal armorial light baluster wine glass, circa 1750-55The pointed round funnel bowl finely engraved with the English arms of Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange, supported by the lion and the unicorn, resting on an elaborate scrollwork bracket, the slender multi-knopped stem with an upper angular knop and wide beaded inverted baluster, over a conical foot, 19cm highFootnotes:ProvenancePrivate British CollectionPrincess Anne (1709-1759) was the eldest daughter of King George II of Great Britain and Caroline of Ansbach. Similar glasses with the same arms include an example from the James Hall Collection sold by Bonhams on 17 December 2008, lot 81 and another from the John De Tscharner Vischer Collection sold by Bonhams on 18 May 2016, lot 61.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A rare drop-knopped heavy baluster flute, circa 1710-15The tall round funnel bowl with a solid base, raised on a stem with a wide drop-knop containing a tear, the tear extending into a true baluster below, over a folded domed foot, 17.8cm highFootnotes:A 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 an example with an angular knop, see Lot 62 in this sale.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A fine green colour twist wine glass, circa 1765The round funnel bowl on a slender stem containing a well-formed opaque white corkscrew edged on both sides in translucent emerald-green, within a pair of heavy opaque white spiral tapes, over a conical foot, 14.9cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceWith Delomosne and Son, 17 December 1987Leuba CollectionThis 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 very rare tartan colour twist goblet, circa 1765Of impressive size with a generous bucket bowl, the stem containing three heavy opaque-white spiral tapes, edged in translucent cobalt-blue, translucent emerald-green and translucent ruby-red respectively, alternating with a further three heavy opaque white spiral threads, over a wide conical foot, 19.2cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceParkington CollectionWith Mallett, 1991Leuba CollectionLiteratureChristopher Sheppard and John Smith, Glass from the Restoration to the Regency (1990), p.70, no.102This 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 Dutch engraved armorial light baluster wine glass, circa 1760The round funnel bowl with the crowned arms of Delft flanked by lion supporters raised on a scrollwork bracket, the composite-stem with an upper multi-spiral airtwist section with a central swelling knop, above a wide beaded inverted baluster terminating in a basal knop, over a domed foot, 19.5cm highFootnotes:ProvenancePrivate British CollectionA glass with these arms which would appear to be by the same hand was sold by Bonhams on 20 November 2019, lot 21.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

An attractive engraved airtwist wine glass, circa 1750The round funnel bowl decorated with a charming landscape vignette depicting a cockerel standing before a seated hen and her seven playful chicks, one perched upon her back and three underneath her wing, flanked by trees, four birds in flight below the rim, on a double-series stem containing a pair of fine mercurial air threads around a central air gauze column, over a conical foot, 13.5cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceWith Delomosne and Son, 20 February 2017Leuba CollectionA Dutch engraved composite-stem goblet engraved with a similar scene from the Stephen Pohlmann Collection was sold by Bonhams on 30 November 2022, lot 47.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 Dutch engraved light baluster wine glass, circa 1750-60The round funnel bowl with a cockerel perched upon a pile of three bales, within an elaborate scrollwork cartouche issuing flowers, inscribed '-DE-GOEDE-NEGOTIE-' (Good Trade) below the rim to the reverse, raised on a multi-knopped stem with an upper angular and true baluster knop above a beaded inverted baluster, terminating in a basal knop, over a conical foot, 18.1cm highFootnotes:ProvenancePrivate British CollectionIt is possible that the engraving represents the Gallic Rooster, symbolising trade with France.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A fine Dutch engraved armorial light baluster 'Admiralty' wine glass attributed to Jacob Sang, circa 1760 The round funnel bowl finely engraved with the crowned martial arms of the Admiraliteit van de Maze (Admiralty of the Maze) at Rotterdam, the shaped shield containing crossed anchors and the letters 'P P P', flanked by martial trophies including flags, drums and neat piles of polished cannonballs, the stem with an angular knop above a beaded inverted baluster and basal knop, over a conical foot, 19.1cm high Footnotes: Provenance Bonhams, 17 December 2008, lot 442 Private British Collection The initials on this glass stand for 'Pro Patria Pugno' (I fight for the Fatherland). The attribution to Jacob Sang is based on similarities to various signed glasses by this engraver. A glass in the Rotterdam Museum bearing the same arms attributed to Sang is illustrated by N I Schadee, Met Rad en Diamant (1989), pp.55-6, no.58. Compare also to the impressive goblet for this Admiralty illustrated by Christopher Sheppard and John Smith, Glass from the Restoration to the Regency (1990), p.59, no.84, which carries a Sang attribution. Similar glasses were also made for other Dutch Admiralties, see for example Lot 94 in this sale. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A good green and blue colour twist wine glass, circa 1765The ovoid bowl on a stem containing a pair of heavy opaque white multi-ply tapes, one edged in translucent cobalt-blue and the other edged in translucent emerald-green, within a pair of three-ply spiral bands, over a conical foot, 13.3cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceChristie's, 27 November 1984, lot 68Paul Walter Collection, Christie's, 15 June 1994, lot 105With Delomosne and Son, 6 January 1995Leuba CollectionThis 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

An exceptional blue and canary-yellow colour twist ale flute, circa 1765The tall round funnel bowl set on a stem comprising a seventeen-ply multi-coloured corkscrew evenly formed from pairs of translucent blue and canary-yellow threads alternating with opaque white, over a conical foot, 20.1cm highFootnotes:ProvenancePrivate London CollectionLiteratureJo Marshall, Glass Source Book (1990), p.9John Sandon, Antique Glass (1999), p.89The remarkable stem of this glass is paralleled only by a handful of glasses with similar multi-ply stems in yellow, blue and opaque white. One from the collection of A C Hubbard Jr was sold by Bonhams on 30 November 2011, lot 212 and another from the collection of Julius and Ann Kaplan was sold by Bonhams on 15 November 2017, lot 51. The combination of yellow and blue in a single stem is very rarely seen.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A red colour twist firing glass, circa 1765The drawn trumpet bowl on a short stem containing a central multi-ply gauze column encircled by a pair of heavy opaque spiral threads, one edged in translucent ruby-red, on a heavy circular 'firing' foot, 9.7cm highFootnotes:ProvenancePrivate London CollectionFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A very rare blue colour twist cordial glass, circa 1765The round funnel bowl moulded with fine flutes to the lower part, the tall stem with a pair of opaque white spiral tapes encircling a pale blue undulating spiral core, over a conical foot, 16.9cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceJohn Towse CollectionWith Delomosne and Son, 14 October 1997Leuba CollectionLiteratureDelomosne and Son, '...Strength and Chearfulness' (1997), no.17aExhibitedBroadfield House and Pilkington Glass Museums, The Glass Circle 50th Anniversary Exhibition 1937-1987 'Strange and Rare', 1987, p.21, no.66This 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

Two engraved facet stem wine glasses, circa 1780-90One with a round funnel bowl decorated with two figures in a chinoiserie landscape before buildings and palm trees, the other with an ovoid bowl decorated with an elaborate chinoiserie building flanked by trees, the facet-cut stems with central swelling knops, over conical feet, 15.2cm and 15.7cm high (2)Footnotes:ProvenanceRon and Mary Thomas Collection, Bonhams, 4 June 2008, lots 213 and 214Private British CollectionFor a glass engraved with a very similar pagoda scene, see L M Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), p.316, no.1021.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A composite stem wine glass and two incised twist wine glasses, circa 1750-65The first with a tulip-shaped bowl on a multi-spiral airtwist stem set into a beaded inverted baluster knop, over a domed foot, 16.3cm high, the incised twist examples comprising one with a bell bowl with honeycomb moulding to the lower part and a folded conical foot, 16.1cm high, and one with a round funnel bowl and plain conical foot, 15.3cm high (3)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A rare red and blue colour twist wine glass, circa 1765The ogee bowl with honeycomb moulding to the lower part, the stem with a flattened opaque white gauze corkscrew encircled by two multi ply spiral bands in opaque iron-red and translucent cobalt-blue, over a conical foot, 16cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceLeuba CollectionA very similar glass from the Royal Brierley Collection was sold by Sotheby's on 3 March 1998, lot 62.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 very rare Jacobite engraved airtwist goblet, circa 1750The generous round funnel bowl finely decorated with an eight-petalled rose on a thorny stem with two buds, one open and one closed, the reverse with a star and 'Redeat', set on a multi-spiral stem with upper and central knops, over a conical foot, 21.3cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceLeuba CollectionAccording to Geoffrey B Seddon, The Jacobites and their Drinking Glasses 91995), the engraving is attributed to Engraver A in the author's nomenclature. Seddon records just seven goblets inscribed with the motto 'Redeat' (May he return) at the time of writing, which usually appears on the bowl of the glass, all of which are attributed to the same engraver. The motto first appeared on a Jacobite medal with a bust of Prince Charles which was struck in 1752 for the Oak Society and it is possible the some of the glasses inscribed 'Redeat' are connected with this Jacobite club, see Seddon 91995), p.107. An airtwist goblet of different form inscribed 'Redeat' on the foot was sold as part of the Durrington Collection by Bonhams on 15 November 2023, lot 24.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 fine Dutch engraved 'Liberty' light baluster wine glass attributed to Jacob Sang, circa 1760The round funnel bowl finely engraved with a prancing horse on a distinctive elaborate scrollwork bracket hung with festoons of pearls, beneath the inscription 'AUREA LIBERTAS' (Golden Liberty), the stem with an upper multi-spiral airtwist section with a central angular knop, above a beaded inverted baluster terminating in basal knop, over a conical foot, 16.2cm highFootnotes:ProvenancePrivate British CollectionThe grave accent above the letter U, the dot above the I, together with the symmetrical ornament of the bracket are some of the indicators of Jacob Sang's hand. A 'Liberty' glass by Sang from the Dr Dreesman Collection, which has almost identical engraving, was sold by Bonhams on 11 December 2013, lot 85. Identical scrollwork brackets are seen on several 'Liberty' glasses signed by Sang which are engraved with an open birdcage instead of a horse. An example in the Rijksmuseum is illustrated by Pieter C Ritsema van Eck, Glass in the Rijksmuseum, Vol.2 (1995), p.198, no.210 and another from the A C Hubbard Jr Collection was sold by Bonhams on 30 November 2011, lot 260.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A fine and rare blue colour twist firing glass, circa 1765The ogee bowl set on a stem with rich cobalt-blue core encircled by a pair of heavy opaque white spiral threads, over a terraced foot, 10.3cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceWith Asprey, 3 October 1986Leuba CollectionOnly a small number of firing glasses with colour twist stems are recorded, most with trumpet bowls. A pair of very similar firing glasses was sold by Sotheby's on 6 July 2005, lots 233 and 234.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 fine Beilby enamelled opaque twist wine glass, circa 1765The ogee bowl painted in opaque white with a grassy sward filled with fruit, including a bunch of grapes and a large pear, a small bird perched on round fruit to the right, on a double-series stem containing a twelve-ply spiral band around an undulating gauze column, over a conical foot, 15cm highFootnotes:A glass with related decoration is illustrated by L M Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), p.338, no.1103 and was sold by Christie's on 14 June 1983, lot 94. Another from the Darell Thompson-Schwab Collection was sold by Bonhams on 21 June 2022, lot 97. For a facet-stem glass with similar decoration in the Victoria and Albert Museum (inv. no.C.67-1942) see James Rush, The Ingenious Beilbys (1973), p.56, no.31.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Two plain stem cordial glasses, circa 1740-50One with a small pan-top bowl on a tall stem with a high domed foot, 16cm high, the other with a round funnel bowl moulded with fine basal flutes, on a tall stem and conical foot, 16.6cm high (2)Footnotes:A very similar pan-top cordial glass from the James Hall Collection was sold by Bonhams on 17 December 2008, lot 102. Another example from the John Towse Collection is illustrated L M Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), p.142, no.355.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A fine and rare moulded stem goblet, circa 1715-20The generous conical bowl with a solid base, set on a six-sided hollow pedestal stem with diamonds on the shoulder and flattened eight-pointed stars between, over a folded conical foot, 19.7cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceRichard Emanuel CollectionWith Delomosne and Son, 10 April 2010Leuba CollectionLiteratureDelomosne and Son, A Gathering of Glass (2010), no.28bIn their catalogue of the Richard Emanuel Collection, Delomosne and Son illustrate this goblet alongside a smaller wine glass with a very similar stem. A similar goblet is illustrated by Percy Bate, English Table Glass (1905), pl.III, no.10, which may be the goblet in the present lot. See also the example from the Walter F Smith Collection sold by Sotheby's on 24 June 1968, lot 595.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

An early propeller-knopped wine or ale glass, late 17th centuryThe elegant finely wrythen-moulded conical bowl, on a spiral propeller stem with light pincered ornament set between collars, the conical foot also with moulded with fine wrythen flutes, 16.1cm highFootnotes:A very similar glass from the Robert Manners Collection was sold by Bonhams on 14 November 2018, lot 20.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A rare Dutch engraved armorial 'VOC' light baluster wine glass, circa 1750The round funnel bowl with the crowned arms of the Republic of the Seven United Provinces, flanked by lion supporters, above a banner inscribed 'CONCORDIA RES PARVÆ CRESCUNT' (Small Things Flourish by Concord), the reverse with monogram 'VOC' within a shield flanked by martial trophies, set on a cushion knop above a slender beaded inverted baluster, over a conical foot, 19.5cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceSotheby's, 6 July 2005, lot 177Bonhams, 20 November 2019, lot 29Private British CollectionA glass engraved with this coat of arms from the Basil Jefferies Collection was sold by Bonhams on 12 November 2014, lot 53. The 'VOC' monogram on the reverse of the present glass would appear to have been engraved by a different hand to the coat of arms.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A very rare Dutch stipple-engraved facet stem wine glass by J Wolff, 1770-1780The generous round funnel bowl engraved with a seated cross-legged hatted gentleman playing the lute, serenading a lady who has an open book on her lap to his left, both in seventeenth-century attire, with an ornamental vase of flowers atop a pedestal between them, a faint castle in the distance, the figures flanked by shrubs, the lower part to the bowl cut with thumbnail facets, on an hexagonal facet-cut stem and conical foot, 14.2cm highFootnotes: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. Two more examples can be added to those recorded by Smit, including a goblet sold by Bonhams on 21 June 2022, lot 132 and another on 20 June 2023, lot 101.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. The present lot is unrecorded by Smit and therefore represents an important addition to this artist's oeuvre. Two examples with related scenes depicting a hatted man seated on a bench and serenading a lady with a lute are recorded by Smit (1993) on p.147, nos.Eb.24, Eb.25 and Eb.26. The latter of these was sold by Bonhams on 20 June 2023, lot 100.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

An opaque twist ratafia glass or flute, circa 1765The tall slender round funnel bowl on a double-series stem containing a pair of nine-ply spiral bands around a pair of heavy opaque white spiral threads, over a conical foot, 18cm highFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A good red and blue colour twist wine glass, circa 1765The generous bell bowl on a stem with a central multi-ply corkscrew edges on both sides in translucent cobalt-blue, encircled by two-ply iron-red spiral band alternating with a single opaque white spiral thread, over a conical foot, 16.3cm highFootnotes:ProvenancePrivate London CollectionFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

An engraved 'Britannia' facet stem goblet, circa 1775The generous ovoid bowl decorated with an oval cartouche containing a seated figure of Britannia holding a spear in her left hand and proffering a sprig in her right, her shield by her side, flanked by martial trophies including flags, swords and musical instruments, the stem cut with hexagonal facets, over a conical foot, 19.2cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceHarvey's Wine Museum, Bonhams, 1 October 2003, lot 233Leuba CollectionExhibitedAshmolean Museum, Oxford, L'Association Internationale pour l'Histoire du Verre Exhibition, 1979, catalogue no.53A facet stem wine glass with virtually identical engraving from the A C Hubbard Jr Collection was sold by Bonhams on 30 November 2011, lot 254. Another glass with very similar engraving from the Anthony Waugh collection was sold by Sotheby's on 28 April 1980, lot 116. It has been suggested that the engraving might commemorate the Battle of Quiberon Bay, a naval victory against the French in 1759. However, the faceted stem would suggest a slightly later date than this.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 rare engraved red colour twist wine glass, circa 1765The pan-top bucket bowl engraved with a border of fruiting vine, the stem with a pair of opaque white multi-ply corkscrews encircling a dark iron-red ribbon corkscrew, over a conical foot, 14.6cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceWith Delomosne and Son, 11 February 1992Leuba CollectionA virtually identical glass, probably from the same original set, was sold by Bonhams on 2 May 2018, lot 116.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 rare engraved opaque twist goblet of possible Jacobite significance, circa 1765The generous ogee bowl finely decorated with a spray of flowering honeysuckle, the reverse with a winged insect, raised on a single series stem containing three opaque white gauze corkscrews, over a conical foot, 18.4cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceWith Delomosne and Son, 9 June 1989Leuba CollectionAccording to Capt. Horridge's definition of Jacobite symbols on wine glasses, honeysuckle symbolises Fidelity, See Churchill's Glass Notes, no.5 and no.7, p.25.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 fine Dutch engraved armorial light baluster 'Admiralty' wine glass attributed to Jacob Sang, circa 1760 The round funnel bowl finely decorated with the crowned arms of the Admiraliteit van het Noorderkwartier (Admiralty of West Friesland), the shaped shield containing crossed anchors and the letters 'A N', flanked by martial trophies including flags, drums and neat piles of cannonballs, the stem with an angular knop above a beaded inverted baluster and basal knop, over a conical foot, 18.4cm high Footnotes: Provenance Dwight Lanmon Collection, Bonhams, 21 June 2022, lot 128 Private British Collection This fine glass has much in common with the small number of other recorded Admiraliteit glasses, some of which are attributed to the celebrated Dutch engraver Jacob Sang. Indeed, the style of the engraving is remarkably similar to that on a glass signed by Sang and dated 1759, formerly in the Guépin Collection sold by Christie's on 5 July 1989, lot 127, which bears the arms of Leiden. This features polished crossed keys also on a matt ground beneath a crown, all executed in the same manner as the armorial on the present glass. A similar glass bearing the initials 'A A' for the Admiralty at Amsterdam, also attributed to Sang, is illustrated by Pieter C Ritsema van Eck and Henrica M Zijlstra-Zweens, Glass in the Rijksmuseum, Vol.2 (2002), p.209, no.220. Another for this Admiralty bearing the arms of the Seven United Provinces is illustrated by Hubert Vreeken, Glas in Het Amsterdams Historisch Museum (1998), p.200, no.196. See also Lot 101 in this sale for an example with the initials 'P P P'. The present glass would appear to be the only recorded Admiraliteit glass bearing the initials 'A N'. Saleroom notices: Please note that this glass is inscribed '6+' or '+9' in diamond-point on the pontil scar. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

An engraved red and blue colour twist wine glass, circa 1765The ogee bowl with a border of three stylised baskets of flowers, birds perched between them, the stem with a central opaque white multi-ply corkscrew encircled by a pair of coloured spiral bands, one in translucent blue and the other in translucent red, over a conical foot, 15.2cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceSotheby's, 30 November 1999, lot 185Bonhams, 16 December 2009, lot 78With Delomosne and Son, 18 December 2009Leuba CollectionThis 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

An exceptionally rare 'Lynn' opaque twist goblet, circa 1760The generous ogee bowl moulded with three concentric rings, raised on a double-series stem containing a central gauze corkscrew encircled by a pair of heavy opaque white spiral tapes, one edged with a mercurial air thread, over a folded conical foot, 18.5cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceA C Hubbard Jr Collection, Bonhams, 30 November 2011, lot 173With Delomosne and SonLeuba CollectionLiteratureWard Lloyd, A Wine Lover's Glasses (2000), p.50, pl.59A similar 'Lynn' goblet from the Ivan Napier Collection in the Fitzwilliam Museum (inv. no.C.39-1975) is illustrated by Delomosne and Son, Lynn Glass? (1995), p.13, no.6a where the authors state that no other 'Lynn' goblets were recorded at the time of writing. The folded foot is also an uncommon feature on an opaque twist glass of this size.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 blue colour twist wine glass, circa 1765The waisted bucket bowl with a solid base, the stem with an opaque white gauze corkscrew encircled by a single translucent cobalt-blue spiral thread, over a conical foot, 16.2cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceJ C Barrett CollectionWith Delomosne and Son, 3 January 1985Leuba CollectionLiteratureGeorge Turnbull and Anthony Herron, The Price Guide to English 18th Century Drinking Glasses (1970), no.11/14This 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 rare façon de Venise wine glass, early 17th centuryThe shallow cup-shaped bowl moulded with a series of twelve evenly spaced ribs, resting on a collar, the hollow inverted baluster stem with an upper shoulder knop and basal merese, over a folded conical foot, 14.2cm highFootnotes:A glass of related form is illustrated by Anna-Elisabeth Theuerkauff-Liederwald, Venezianisches Glas der Veste Coburg (1994), pp.259-60, no.238, which is shown with a drawing of a glass from Giovanni Maggi's 'Bichierografia' of 1604 which bears a very close resemblance to the present lot.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 Beilby enamelled opaque twist wine glass, circa 1765The ogee bowl finely painted below the rim in opaque white with three diaper lattice panels within elaborate scrollwork borders, raised on a double-series stem with two pairs of three-ply spiral bands around a central gauze column, over a conical foot, 14.7cm highFootnotes:A goblet enamelled with virtually identical diaper panels is illustrated by L M Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), p.344, no.1123 and was sold by Bonhams on 19 May 2010, lot 27. The decoration relates closely to the diaper panels on a on an armorial punchbowl in the Victoria and Albert Museum (inv. no.C.43-1942) which is signed by Beilby and dated 1765. Compare also to the wine glass painted with related diaper panels illustrated by Bickerton (1986), p.346, no.1130, which was sold by Bonhams on 19 December 2009, lot 70 and the ale flute from the James Hall Collection sold by Bonhams on 17 December 2008, lot 132.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A good Dutch engraved light baluster marriage glass, circa 1750-60The round funnel bowl finely decorated with a flaming heart above a pair of clasped hands emerging from voluminous clouds, all within an elaborate rococo scroll and foliate cartouche embellished with pearls and flowers, surmounted by two lovebirds, the slender stem with upper angular and cushion knops above a teared inverted baluster terminating in a small basal knop, over a folded conical foot, 19.1cm highFootnotes:ProvenancePrivate British CollectionFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A very rare wash-enamelled airtwist ale flute, circa 1750The tall round funnel bowl painted in a pale grey enamel with four crossed ears of barley filling the entire bowl, the details picked out in darker grey, the double-series stem with a gauze column encircled by a pair of mercurial air threads, over a conical foot, 19.4cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceLeuba CollectionAn ale glass of different form from the same distinctive group was sold by Bonhams on 14 November 2018, lot 112. See also that from the Lazarus Collection in Bristol Museum and Art Gallery (inv. no.Na830). For a wine glass wash-enamelled with fruiting vine, see that sold by Bonhams on 1 December 2021, lot 143.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 fine and rare heavy baluster flute, circa 1710-20The tall round funnel bowl with a solid base, raised on a stem with a teared angular knop, the tear extending into a basal knop, over a folded conical foot, 19.2cm highFootnotes:Traditionally these rare flutes were thought to have been used for ale or beer, but it has been suggested that they may have instead been designed for champagne, see Dwight P Lanmon, The Golden Age of English Glass (2011), pp.117-9 and 121. It is also possible that they were used for wine. An early baluster flute was sold by Bonhams on 1 December 2021, lot 54. For a smaller example with a drop-knopped stem, see Lot 70 in this sale.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A massive airtwist ale flute, circa 1750Of extremely large proportions, the tall round funnel bowl on a stem containing a pair of mercurial air corkscrews, over a wide conical foot, 25.5cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceKenneth Alexander CollectionWith Asprey, 1986With Delomosne and Son, 11 February 1992Leuba CollectionExhibitedAsprey, '100 British Glasses', 1985, catalogue pp.42-3, no.68It is extraordinarily rare to find an ale glass in such an enormous size.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 fine Venetian wine glass, early 17th centuryThe wide conical bowl with an everted rim, set on a hollow tapering stem with a basal merese, over a folded conical foot, 13.9cm highFootnotes:An almost identical glass from the Overduin Collection was sold by Bonhams on 21 May 2014, lot 13. Other similar glasses are illustrated by Pieter van Eck and Henrica Zijlstra-Zweens, Glass in the Rijksmuseum, Vol.I (1993), p.26, no.14, by Franz Dreier, Venezianische Gläser (1989), p.136, no.152, and by Fritz Nagel, Europäisches Formglas 15.-19. Jahrhundert (1990), p.34, nos.167-9.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

An exceptionally rare canary-yellow colour twist wine glass, circa 1765The waisted bucket bowl on a stem containing two pairs of opaque canary-yellow spiral threads encircled by a pair of heavy opaque white spiral tapes, over a conical foot, 15.7cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceWith Mallett, 1991Leuba CollectionLiteratureL M Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), p.240, no.737Christopher Sheppard and John Smith, Glass from the Restoration to the Regency (1990), p.71, no.104The canary-yellow thread is the rarest of all colour twist types. It is exceptionally rare to find an example with a bowl of this shape. An example with a plain bucket bowl from the A C Hubbard Jr Collection was sold by Bonhams on 30 November 2011, lot 197. See also the example from the Durrington Collection sold by Bonhams on 15 November 2023, lot 58.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 blue colour twist wine glass, circa 1765The almost tulip-shaped ovoid bowl, stem with an unusual opaque white solid tubular corkscrew edged in translucent cobalt-blue, encircled by a twelve-ply spiral band, over a conical foot, 13.5cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceSotheby's, 25 May 1993, lot 44With Delomosne and Son, 9 June 1993Leuba CollectionThe unusual tubular corkscrew is seen in a small handful of other blue colour twist glasses, including a firing glass from the Julius and Ann Kaplan Collection was sold by Bonhams on 15 November 2017, lot 55 and another sold by Bonhams on 20 June 2023, lot 113.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