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Georgian “Kit-Cat” Balustroid Wine Glass c. 1740 browse these categories for related items... All Items: Antiques: Decorative Art: Glass: English: Pre 1800: item # 1086602 Please refer to our stock # 1305 when inquiring.
Athelny Antiques Suffolk United Kingdom 077 8645 8444 Guest Book £560 |
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DESCRIPTION:
A classic “Kit-Cat” type balustroid wine glass. This particularly elegant and well proportioned example has a drawn trumpet bowl above a balustroid stem comprised of a nicely centred elongated tear and an inverted baluster knop containing a tiny elongated tear all standing on a folded conical foot with broken pontil mark. Mysteriously, this type of glass has become known as a Kit-Cat glass, named after the glasses depicted in a painting of two members of the Kit-Cat Club holding wine glasses by Sir Godfrey Kneller (1646-1721). The mystery is - why have 1740 balustroid glasses with inverted baluster knops become identified with the 1720 heavy baluster glasses with the true-baluster knopped stems depicted by Kneller? The answer may well be that both glasses "wear their knops around their ankles". DIMENSIONS: Height – 6 inches; Bowl diameter – 2⅜ inches; Foot diameter – 2¾ inches. CONDITION: In excellent condition with a couple of enclosed air inclusions in the foot and normal signs of wear to the bowl and foot rims. |
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