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Click here to subscribeA rare cylinder-knopped baluster wine glass, circa 1710-20The conical bowl with a solid teared base, set on a tapered cylindrical knop enclosing a large tear extending into a small basal knop, over a folded conical foot, 17cm highFootnotes:A very similar glass on a folded domed foot from the James Hall Collection was sold by Bonhams on 17 December 2008, lot 38.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A rare Lowestoft small plate and a tea canister, circa 1762-68The plate painted in blue with flowering peony sprouting from rocks and birds in flight above, the rim with three trailing peony sprigs, 17.8cm diam, painter's numeral 6 inside footrim, the tea canister of octagonal shape, of Hughes-type with relief-moulded circular panels flanked by chrysanthemums and foliage, four roundels painted in blue with Chinese river scenes, a scroll border above the foot and a flower and scroll border at the shoulder, 9cm high, painter's numeral 5 (2)Footnotes:ProvenanceGordon and Lorna Turner CollectionPlates of this small size are rare at Lowestoft. For a similar tea canister in the City of Norwich Museum Collection illustrated by Geoffrey Godden, see Lowestoft Porcelains (1985), p.70, pl.65 (left).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
An impressive Baccarat close-packed millefiori magnum paperweight, dated 1848The generous dome set with an arrangement of assorted brightly coloured canes, revealing in places short lengths of filigree ribbon and coloured twists beneath, the profusion of Gridel silhouettes including a cockerel, a horse, six flowers, a swan, a dog, a pheasant, a deer, a carnation, a monkey, a goat and a pigeon, together with several distinctive shamrock canes, signed and dated with the cane 'B 1848', the underside cut with strawberry ornament, 9.5cm diam, 6.9cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceLivingston CollectionClose-packed millefiori paperweights in this size are exceptionally rare.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A rare Chelsea teabowl, circa 1750Of cinquefoil shape, painted in kakiemon style with flowering prunus and bamboo behind banded hedges, a long-tailed phoenix above in flight, further prunus and an insect to the interior, 5.4cm highFootnotes:A very similar teabowl is illustrated by John C Austin, Chelsea Porcelain at Williamsburg (1977), p.57, no.38. This lobed, five-sided shape seems to occur less often in Chelsea than the octagonal shaped teabowls.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A rare façon de Venise serpent-stemmed winged wine flute, 17th centuryThe slender conical bowl set on a wide collar, the stem formed of a meandering rope of clear glass containing spiralling threads in white and iron-red, the sides applied with pincered ornament in turquoise glass, above a short plain section and small basal knop, the conical foot folded at the rim, 18.3cm highFootnotes:ProvenancePrivate British CollectionA flute of very similar form in the Rijksmuseum (inv. no.BK-NM-10754-17) is illustrated by Pieter Ritsema van Eck, Glass in the Rijksmuseum (1993), p.56, no.69. A similar but taller flute appears in a still life painting of circa 1675 by Jacob van Walscapelle (1644-1727).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A very rare Bacchus patterned millefiori 'sodden snow' ground paperweight, circa 1850The distinctive canes in various sizes, set with two pairs of opposing cane clusters framed within opaque white 'sodden snow' borders, two with a row of red and white pastry mould canes around a central oversized cane, two with a row of yellow composite canes around a central green oak leaf silhouette cane, the clusters divided by a row of six red and white pastry mould canes flanked by a pair of yellow canes, all set within a ground of blue and white cogged canes and an outer row of tubular staves, 8cm diam, 5.6cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceWith Sweetbriar Gallery, 25 April 2008Livingston CollectionPaperweights with 'sodden snow' grounds are amongst the rarest produced by Bacchus. The techniques involved in the encasing process would have been incredibly challenging, hence their rarity. The central feature has been packed with a handful of smaller canes to prevent the design from moving prior to encasing. A similar patterned millefiori 'sodden snow' example was sold by Christie's in New York on 26 September 2007, lot 646. See also the examples illustrated by Robert G Hall, Old English Paperweights (1998), p.53.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A rare Dutch engraved light baluster wine glass, circa 1750The round funnel bowl with a continuous landscape scene showing a timber yard, a barn filled with planks of timber, a well-dressed gentleman overseeing a man loading further planks onto a horse-drawn cart in front of two elaborate houses, two goats before a large windmill in the distance, the rim inscribed 'DE HOUTTUYNS WELVAREN VAN DE ERVE ROL EN AGRICOLA' (The Prosperity of the Timberyards of the Rol and Agricola Families), the stem with an angular knop above a small teared baluster, over a large beaded inverted baluster and conical foot, 20.7cm highFootnotes:The sawing of wood in windmills in the Netherlands was developed on a large scale unmatched elsewhere. These mills principally served to supply the Dutch shipbuilding industry which developed together with the mills in a small area along the River Zaan north of Amsterdam. Some of these yards, like that depicted on this glass, had their own windmills and a number were owned by the Dutch East India Company or VoC. The well-established Dutch trade links ensured a ready supply of cheap timber imported from Scandinavia and the Baltic. A wind-powered mill sawed as much timber in four or five days as took sixty days by hand.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Another rare Chelsea teabowl, circa 1750Of cinquefoil shape, painted in kakiemon style with flowering prunus and bamboo behind banded hedges, a long-tailed phoenix above, scattered flowerheads to the interior, with gilt highlights, 5.4cm highFootnotes:See footnote to lot 391 in this sale.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A rare opaque twist toasting glass or flute, circa 1765-70Of very slender drawn trumpet shape, the thin double-series opaque twist stem containing a pair of spiral threads outside of a multi-ply corkscrew, on a delicate conical foot, 19.5cm highFootnotes:ProvenancePhillips sale, 10 December 1992, lot 42Graham Vivian CollectionA similar glass is illustrated by L M Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), p.224, no.675.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A rare South Staffordshire enamel patch box, circa 1815-20Of oval form, the hinged cover printed in outline and hand-coloured with a couple standing before a priest, inscribed above 'The Single Married, the Married happy', reserved on a pale pink ground, 4.7cm wideFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A rare acorn-knopped small baluster wine glass, circa 1710-15The round funnel bowl with a solid base resting on a half knop, above a teared acorn knop and teared basal ball knop, over a folded conical foot, 13.3cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceThomas Arthur Lewis Collection, Christie's sale, 18 November 1980, lot 39James Hall Collection, Bonhams sale, 17 December 2008, lot 70With Delomosne and Son, 14 January 2009Patrick and Mavis Walker CollectionA larger glass of similar form from the Thomas Collection was sold by Bonhams on 4 June 2008, lot 16. Another, but with a folded domed foot, is illustrated by L M Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), p.78, no.107.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A rare baluster wine glass, circa 1725The flared bell bowl solid at the base, supported by a teared six-ringed annulated stem composed of a large central knop flanked by knops in graduating sizes, above a basal knop and folded conical foot, 17.1cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceChristie's sale, 15 June 1994, lot 50Christie's sale, 23 April 2002, lot 6Graham Vivian CollectionA very similar example was sold by Bonhams on 8 December 2004, lot 11. Compare also to the examples illustrated by W A Thorpe, A History of English and Irish Glass (1929), pl.LXXXVIII, fig.3 and by L M Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), p.70, no.77.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 important Worcester centrepiece, circa 1755Of deep oval form, the exterior crisply moulded with basket-weave, the two braided handles applied with flowers and leaves at the terminals, the centre finely painted in blue with the 'Six-Piered Bridge' pattern (I.B.33), a fisherman and a young boy crossing the bridge connecting two islands, varied buildings perched on the rocky landscape, trees sprouting between them, more fishermen steering their sampans through the water, 36.7cm wide across the handles, workman's mark inside footrimFootnotes:This rare basket is one of just a small number of extant examples, the others mostly in poor condition. One is illustrated in Branyan, French and Sandon, Worcester Blue and White Porcelain (1990), p.131 and was sold as part of the Crane Collection by Bonhams on 31 March 2010, lot 95. Another was in the Liane Richards Collection, sold by Bonhams on 13 April 2016, lot 161 (part). A fine example is in the Radlett Collection and can be seen in the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto, no.G05.18.35. The present lot has a more elaborate border, which is all the more impressive for its clarity and detail when comparing it with contemporary less successful and blurred attempts on other high-sided shapes. Interestingly, the same workman's mark can be found on the pair of junket dishes, lot 400 in this sale.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 Staffordshire glazed redware porringer, circa 1740-50The deep bowl applied with a single moulded handle, the everted rim edged in cream slip, with a lead glaze, 14.4cm wide including handleFootnotes:This form would appear to be very unusual in redware. The handle is a silver shape. Similar forms in English delftware dating from the late 17th to mid-18th century are illustrated by Lipski and Archer, Dated English Delftware (1984), pp.298-301.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 and large Staffordshire pearlware model of a castle, circa 1800With a central square tower enclosed within crenellated walls and accessed through heavily studded doors set within distinctive rusticated openings, two round towers to either side, the walls with incised stonework washed in brown, 34cm wideFootnotes:A very similar castle model is illustrated by Major Cyril Earle, The Earle Collection of Early Staffordshire Pottery (1915), p.235For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A very rare creamware 'Bacchus' jug, circa 1785-90Bacchus modelled seated on a barrel with his feet resting on a shallow step, grasping a branch of fruiting vine with both hands, more grapes moulded beneath the shaped rim above his head, the handle with vine leaf terminals, the mouldings picked out in blue and green translucent enamels, his hair, lion's skin costume and the barrel picked out in brown,Footnotes:ProvenanceJames and Timmey Challenger Collection, ChicagoBacchus is normally found together with Pan who stands on a barrel at the back of the jug. His depiction as a jug on his own is most unusual.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 early English mallet form magnum serving bottle, circa 1720-30Of generous shouldered shape with a tapering cylindrical neck and bladed string rim, applied with a plain flattened loop handle, 24.5cm highFootnotes:ProvenancePaul Gresswell-Wilkins CollectionFor a discussion of the form see Jane Hollingworth, Collecting Decanters (1980), p.43, type 18b. An octagonal example with a pouring lip is illustrated by Andy McConnell, The Decanter (2004), p.67, pl.89 (left).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
An extremely rare Pantin lily-of-the-valley paperweight, circa 1878With rows of delicate bell-shaped flowers and buds with yellow centres hung from arched stems, one bearing white flowers and the other pink, set against two broad overlapping pale green leaves, 7.2cm diam, 4.3cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceChristie's sale, 25 June 1982, lot 155Joseph Batiste CollectionSotheby's sale, 29 June 2004, lot 310Livingston CollectionWeights enclosing lily-of-the-valley were made by St. Louis during the Classic Period, but Pantin subsequently made weights with this flower several years later. Examples are rare and feature either white or pink blossoms. This would appear to be the only example recorded which includes flowers in both colours. A white version is illustrated by Paul Dunlop, The Dictionary of Glass paperweights (2009), p.198, fig.281. Another in the Bergstrom Art Center is illustrated by Evelyn Campbell Cloak, Glass Paperweights (1969), pl.27, no.296.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 rare Spanish (Catalan) façon de Venise ewer or 'biberon', late 16th centuryOf distinctive yellow-green tint, the ovoid body with a slender neck enclosed at the top applied with a vermicular collar and a finial, with a double loop handle and flattened pointed spout applied with a glass trail at the tip, the base with a trailed footring, 22.5cm highFootnotes:This type of vessel is more commonly seen with opaque white latticinio decoration. A very similar plain example is illustrated by Rainer Rückert, Die Glassammlung des Bayersischen Nationalmuseums München, vol.1 (1982), no.122. Another in the Kunstgewerbemuseum, Cologne is illustrated by Brigitte Klesse, Glas (1963), p.92, no.193. Others of the same distinctive form are illustrated by Anna-Elisabeth Theuerkauff-Liederwald, Venezianisches Glas der Veste Coburg (1994), pp.381-2, figs.411-4.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A rare Wood family 'Admiral Lord Howe' Toby jug, circa 1790Modelled seated on a barrel with a spaniel asleep at his feet, a foaming jug held in both hands, delicately coloured in green, grey and light brown translucent glazes, 25.5cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceJames and Timmey Challenger Collection, ChicagoThe origin of the Lord Howe name in association with the 'Man on a Barrel' Toby is discussed by Vic Schuler, Collecting British Toby Jugs (1994), p.58. Another Wood type 'Lord Howe' Toby from the same collection was sold by Bonhams, 23 June 2021, lot 88.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 Baccarat close-packed millefiori paperweight, dated 1848The tight arrangement of assorted brightly coloured canes including Gridel silhouettes of a pelican, a pheasant, lovebirds, a squirrel, a hunter or 'man with gun', and a cockerel, signed and dated with the cane 'B 1848', 7.6cm diam, 5.1cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceLivingston CollectionThe hunter or 'man with gun' is one of the rarest Gridel silhouettes, see Paul Dunlop, The Dictionary of Glass Paperweights (2009), pp.292-4. The lovebirds would appear to be the first Gridel silhouette made by Baccarat as it is the only one which appears in weights dated 1846, see Dunlop (2009), p.201.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A rare and large Royal Worcester plaque by Thomas Scott Callowhill, circa 1875Fully painted using an impasto technique with a river, two young women resting on the grassy bank, mountains in the background below a moody sky, signed 'T.S.Callowhill', the footrim pierced for suspension, 40.8cm diam, impressed factory markFootnotes:Best-known for painting the portrait heads on the Countess of Dudley Service, Thomas Callowhill was an excellent all-round decorator. While at Royal Worcester he experimented with various underglaze techniques and introduced the difficult 'impasto' technique, using coloured clay instead of enamels to replicate the appearance of oil painting.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Staffordshire pearlware 'Double Base' Toby Jug, circa 1790Of traditional form and seated on a rare 'Double Base' washed in green, holding a thinly potted jug in both hands, a pipe leaning against his right leg, his eyebrows unusually represented with fine incised lines, his coat picked out in speckled light brown, his shoes and hat in dark brown, the handle and part of the chair picked out in bright yellow, 26.1cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceJames and Timmey Challenger Collection, ChicagoThis 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
Three Royal Worcester miniature cups and saucers, dated 1916-18Comprising a rare coffee cup and saucer charmingly painted by William Powell with robin guarding a nest full of eggs, signed 'W Powell', saucer 9.7cm diam, a teacup and saucer painted with autumn fruits by Richard Sebright, signed 'R. Sebright', saucer 9.9cm diam, and a coffee cup and saucer similarly painted by William Ricketts, signed Ricketts, saucer 9.7cm diam, printed puce marks (6)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 rare Lowestoft egg drainer, circa 1780Of circular form, pierced with holes forming a diamond pattern, a delicate rope-twist handle with floret terminals applied to one side and painted in blue with a small sprig, the inner rim painted with a 'lattice, fish-roe and butterfly' border, 9.1cm wideFootnotes:A similar example in Norwich Castle Museum is illustrated by Sheenah Smith, Lowestoft Porcelain in Norwich Castle Museum, Vol.1 (1975), p.128, no.177a. Another with the same border but a different pierced design from the Billie Pain Collection was sold by Bonhams on 26 November 2003, lot 243.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A rare South Staffordshire enamel bonbonniere, late eighteenth centuryIn the form of a pocket watch with a gilt metal hinge, mount and hanging loop, the glazed and painted dial with gilt metal hands, the reverse painted in puce monochrome with lovers in a rural landscape edged with white scrolls against the blue ground, 6cm longFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A rare Lowestoft mustard pot, circa 1770Of cylindrical form, the scrolled handle with a thumbrest, painted in blue with the 'Prunus Root' pattern, the flowering tree issuing from gnarled roots, a flowering branch on the reverse, 6.6cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceSusi and Ian Sutherland Collection, Bonhams sale, 3 October 2007, lot 331A similar example in the Victoria and Albert Museum (acc. no. C.401&A-1924), complete with its cover, is illustrated by Bernard Watney, English Blue and White Porcelain (1973), pl.83C and by Geoffrey Godden, Lowestoft Porcelains (1985), p.98, pl.114 where the same flowering branch can be seen, painted hanging down from the rim as on the present lot.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A very rare Toby Jug from the 'Midshipman Family', circa 1785Attributed to Jacob Marsh, modelled seated with a foaming jug grasped in both hands, wearing a blue frock coat, ochre breeches and light brown shoes, his waistcoat left partially unbuttoned to reveal his necktie, 15.4cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceJames and Timmey Challenger Collection, ChicagoThis is one of a group of 'Midshipman' jugs which themselves hold drinking vessels. Twelve 'Midshipman' jugs from the group are recorded by Vic Schuler, Collecting British Toby Jugs (Third Edition 1999), p.57. Just one of these twelve holds only a jug as seen on this lot. Sadly, there is no photograph or reference but it is likely to be the same jug and thus the only recorded example of the model. Interestingly, this example lacks the distinctive tied ribbon applied below the lower handle terminal which is normally found on 'Midshipman' jugs.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 Battersea enamel snuff box, circa 1755Of rectangular form with a hinged gilt metal mount, the cover printed in puce with a boar hunting scene, the sides with putti emblematic of the arts, three in a lighter tone of puce and one in sepia, the underside in sepia with a fisherman and his companion in the grounds of a country house, 7.9cm wideFootnotes:See Egan Mew, Battersea Enamels (1926), fig.34 for the Ravenet engravings used on the sides of this box. It is most unusual to find prints of different colours on the same box.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 rare Baccarat faceted and garlanded turquoise buttercup paperweight, circa 1850The flower with a row of six turquoise cupped petals around a row of five white inner petals and a yellow composite cane centre, five serrated lime-green leaves behind, the stem with a further pair of opposing leaves and a pointed red bud, all within an outer garland of alternate green pastry mould and white cogged canes, cut with two rows of seven printies around a central window, star-cut base, 7.7cm diam, 4.9cm highFootnotes:LiteraturePaul Dunlop, Baccarat Paperweights: Two Centuries of Beauty (2013), p.73, fig.227For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A fine and large Pantin concentric millefiori paperweight, circa 1878The central green and white oversized pastry mould cane within a formal arrangement of alternating canes predominantly in pink, white and blue, set in four concentric rows, the canes including both white and pink rose canes and pink and green rose canes in Clichy style, 10cm diam, 6.9cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceLivingston CollectionThis paperweight belongs to a rare class previously attributed to early Clichy, but it is now generally accepted that these were in fact produced by Pantin. See Paul Dunlop, 'Late Clichy, or What?', PCA Bulletin (2005), pp.22-3 for a discussion. A patterned millefiori example containing very similar white and pink rose canes is illustrated by Paul Dunlop, The Dictionary of Glass Paperweights (2009), p.240, fig.339.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A rare Wood Family 'Shield' Toby jug, circa 1785Based upon the traditional form, seated and holding an empty jug in both hands, a pipe resting on the ground to his left, the other side of the base applied with a shield impressed 'IT IS ALL OUT. THEN FILL HIM AGIAN' (sic), wearing a brown coat, green waistcoat and yellow breeches, 25.2cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceJames and Timmey Challenger Collection, ChicagoAnother example from the same collection was sold by Bonhams, 15 December 2020, lot 46. The model also occurs with a 'Roman Nose'. The inscription is similar to that found on delftware punchbowls, suggesting that these jugs were intended as drinking vessels. Only a small number of such jugs are recorded, all sharing the misspelling of 'again'.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 Staffordshire pearlware 'Trafalgar' or 'Victory' Toby jug, circa 1806-08Based on the traditional Rodney's Sailor and painted in bright colours, with black tricorn hat, blue jacket and trousers and striped waistcoat, holding a foaming jug and tumbler, seated on a high back chair with a sea chest beneath, with applied ribbon inscription 'Trafalgar' on both ends, the reverse with a medallion with Nelson's flagship 'Victory', green moulded base, 29.5cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceJames and Timmey Challenger Collection, ChicagoThis 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 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 rare Lowestoft saucer dish, circa 1762Crisply moulded with a broad band of stiff leaves and flowerheads on a dimpled background, a very unusual border painted in blue of lozenges and triangles on a fine lined background, the centre with a large peony spray, 18.7cm diamFootnotes:ProvenanceGordon and Lorna Turner CollectionExamples of this moulded pattern and the unusual painted border appear to be very rare. John Howell illustrates a teabowl and saucer in his paper, Early Lowestoft, ECC Trans, Vol.11, Pt.2 (1982), pl.62c. A unglazed sherd from a teabowl with this moulding was found on the Lowestoft factory site, see Sheenah Smith, Lowestoft Porcelain in Norwich Castle Museum, Vol.1 (1975), p.209, no.463.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A rare Lowestoft saucer dish, circa 1768Of plain circular form, fully painted in blue with an unusual Chinese river scene, the steep left-hand bank with a two-storeyed building and a jetty leading to a small hut on stilts, another hut on the far bank and a small boat crossing the river, within a 'lattice and flower' border with one reserve containing a miniature riverscape, three sprigs below the outside rim, 20.7cm diam, painter's numeral 5 inside footrimFootnotes:Large saucer dishes or 'saucer-shaped plates' are a rare form at Lowestoft. See Christopher Spencer, Early Lowestoft (1981), pp.102-3, figs.126-7 for two further examples where the author suggests that their rarity might be explained by their often sagged and warped centres, demonstrating difficulties experienced in the firing of this shape. It is notable that the present lot appears to have largely evaded this fault.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A pair of rare tinplate caskets and covers mounted with Birmingham enamel plaques, circa 1755Of rectangular form with shaped bracket feet, the covers mounted with enamel plaques painted with a harbour scene, the borders and bombé sides japanned with rococo scrollwork and flowers, 10.3cm wide (4)Footnotes:ProvenanceSotheby's New York, 13 December 1984, lot 37These rare boxes belong to a small group japanned in similar style and mounted with Birmingham plaques depicting harbour scenes or Italian landscapes. Since the tinplate industry thrived in Birmingham and nearby Wolverhampton, it is likely that the caskets were produced nearby. See Susan Benjamin, English Enamel Boxes, (1978), p.67 and Therle and Bernard Hughes, English Painted Enamels (1967), p.137 for related examples.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
An interesting collection of honeycomb moulded glass, circa 1730-50Comprising a rare teabowl and saucer, saucer 11.9cm diam, a jelly or syllabub glass with a pan top and plain loop handle over a domed foot, 11.5cm high, and a patch stand or miniature tazza, the shallow lipped tray on a short plain baluster stem with shoulder and basal knops, over a gadroon-moulded domed foot, 8cm diam (4)Footnotes:ProvenanceBonhams sale, 21 November 2001, lot 155 (syllabub)Bonhams sale, 7 June 2006, lot 45 (teabowl and saucer)With Christopher Sheppard, 16 June 2006 (patch stand)Graham Vivian CollectionA very similar teabowl and saucer was sold by Bonhams on 7 June 2006, lot 45.For 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
A rare Clichy faceted garlanded flat bouquet paperweight, circa 1850The central posy or nosegay set with three tiny canes as flowers on a bed of four pointed leaves, within an outer garland of six oversized green pastry mould canes alternating with groups of four pink pastry mould canes, all set on an upset muslin ground above a bed of horizontal latticinio cable, cut with a small top window and two rows of six side printies, 6.9cm diam, 5.2cm highFootnotes:Clichy only made a small number of flat bouquet weights, but examples on upset muslin grounds are rare.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
A rare French cut Hyalith glass and gilt metal mounted casket, circa 1830Of sarcophagus form and in jet black glass, the sides and cover finely cut with slanted pillar flutes all around, linking to form a starburst pattern on the top, a band of palisade flutes around the cover, the underside of the base cut with a star, the hinged ormolu mounts with bands of florets, raised on four hoof feet below a formal stiff-leaf border, 10.7cm wideFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A rare American jasper-ground buttercup paperweight and a poinsettia weight, circa 1852-80The first by the New England Glass Co, the mottled red and white ground inset with a white and yellow flower formed of five distinctive angular cupped petals, on a stem with five pointed leaves, 7.1cm diam, 4.6cm high, the other by the Boston and Sandwich Glass Co, with a blue flower on a leafy stem, the leaves with distinctive rows of 'dew', resting on a filigree cushion, 7.7cm diam, 5cm high (2)Footnotes:ProvenanceLivingston CollectionButtercup paperweights were produced by both Baccarat and the New England Glass Company but are rare from both makers. It is considered one of New England's finest paperweights. A very similar example on a jasper ground is illustrated by Paul Dunlop, The Dictionary of Glass Paperweights (2009), p.68, fig.73. Compare also to the example sold by Bonhams on 23 June 2021, lot 44.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A very rare Martin Brothers Toby jug by Robert Wallace Martin, dated 1903Modelled seated in a high-backed chair with his feet resting on a cushion, a glass in one hand and a pipe in the other, his face carefully modelled with eyes looking to his left, his buttoned tunic with incised details, 25.2cm high, incised 'R W Martin and Bros. London and Southall. 10.10.03'Footnotes:ProvenanceJames and Timmey Challenger Collection, ChicagoA similar jug is in The British Museum (1978,0704.20), probably one of two exhibited at Fulham Public Library 1929. In the exhibition catalogue, Ernest Marsh states that three such jugs were made by Robert Wallace Martin in 1903.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 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 rare Baccarat shamrock paperweight, circa 1850The single large four-leaved shamrock or clover in bright green lampwork set in clear glass, 6.3cm diam, 4.3cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceEuropean Private Collection, Bonhams sale, 26 November 2014, lot 334A very similar example was sold by Bonhams on 15 June 2011, lot 264. Another example is in The Art Institute of Chicago (inv. no.1988.541.598).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 rare Bow botanical plate, circa 1760Of octagonal shape with a brown rim, fully painted with a large flowering cactus and an 18th century interpretation of a halved dragon fruit at the centre, damsons and a blue flower sprig, a colourful butterfly and various smaller insects interspersed throughout, 20cm wide,Footnotes:A pair of similar plates from the Nelson Rockefeller Collection is illustrated by Anton Gabszewicz, Made at New Canton (2000), p.74, pl.61. On the previous page Gabszewicz notes that 'the rendering of botanical specimens on Bow porcelain is well known for the use of broad artistic license'. The exotic fruit and cactus on the present lot is charmingly painted according to this tradition. Another octagonal plate painted with flowers and insects but not fruit from the M Dudley Westropp Collection was sold by Bonhams on 5 March 2003, lot 68.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A very rare 'Fiddler' Toby jug from the 'Midshipman Family', circa 1785Attributed to Jacob Marsh, modelled seated and playing a violin, a jug on the ground to his right, his hair secured at the back with a distinctive tied ribbon, particularly well-coloured with a green coat with ochre collar, brown shoes and a light blue waistcoat partially unbuttoned to reveal his necktie, his tricorn hat with a lobed border in brown and ochre, 19.5cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceBute Collection, Christie's sale, 8 July 1996, lot 97James and Timmey Challenger Collection, ChicagoThis jug is listed by Vic Schuler, Collecting British Toby Jugs (Third Edition 1999), p.56 as number ten of the eleven 'Fiddler' jugs recorded at the time of writing. Despite their rarity, remarkably a total of six jugs from the 'Midshipman' group, including three 'Fiddlers', were included in the Challenger Collection providing a unique opportunity for comparison. The other two 'Fiddlers' were sold by Bonhams on 15 December 2020, lot 39 and 23 June 2021, lot 74. The maker of the group was identified when a 'Lord Rodney' from the group was sold by Philips on 29 November 1989, lot 305a. This was inscribed on the base 'J Marsh, Folley'. Jacob Marsh is recorded as a potter in Burslem in 1803, moving to the Lane Delph Pottery in 1806. He is listed in 'The History and Gazeteer and Directory of Staffordshire' in 1834 as 'Jacob Marsh of Golden Hill House (Foley) gent'.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 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 Staffordshire pearlware 'Double Base' Toby Jug, circa 1790Of traditional form and seated on a rare 'Double Base' washed in green, holding a thinly potted jug in both hands, a pipe leaning against his right leg, his coat picked out in light blue, his shoes and hat in brown, 26cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceJames and Timmey Challenger Collection, ChicagoThis 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.comPlease note the additional provenance for this lot 'Lord Mackintosh of Halifax Collection (paper label)'.
A rare Staffordshire 'Prince Hal' Toby jug and cover, circa 1820Modelled as a portly figure seated on a rock, head turned and gazing up to his right, holding a sword across his chest in his right hand and an oval shield moulded with a royal portrait and 'GR' in his left, his tunic enamelled in bright red and yellow, his breeches in olive green, the green base applied with florets and sieved clay, 35.8cm (2)Footnotes:ProvenanceJames and Timmey Challenger Collection, ChicagoAn earlier Wood family version of this jug from the same collection was sold by Bonhams, 15 December 2020, lot 58. The identity of the figure has been much debated, with suggestions of Prince Hal or Falstaff from Shakespeare's Henry IV and V, or possibly King George IV when Prince of Wales, masquerading at a Brighton ball as King Hal (Henry VIII). Lord Mackintosh believed the model to be Sir Toby Belch from Twelfth Night.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 signed Clichy scrambled millefiori paperweight, circa 1850The assorted brightly coloured canes mostly incomplete, incorporating a complete 'CLICHY' signature cane, 8cm diam, 5.8cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceLivingston CollectionA full Clichy signature cane is extremely rare and appears on only three paperweight vases and three paperweights including a moss-ground, spaced millefiori and a close-packed millefiori weight, see Paul Dunlop, The Dictionary of Glass Paperweights (2009), p.92. Whilst several scrambled paperweights contain fragments of this signature cane, very few contain the complete version. Another fully signed example from the Homer Perkins Collection was sold by Christie's on 23 September 1998, lot 107. An example with a partial signature cane was sold by Bonhams on 15 June 2011, lot 301.For 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
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