Rare Antique Mixed Twist Wine Glass c. 1765
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Pre 1800 item# 1145711 (stock# 1412)
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DESCRIPTION:
A rare and most elegant example of a mixed twist wine flute with trumpet bowl above a mixed twist stem composed of a central spiral white enamel gauze surrounded by a pair of mercury air spirals standing on a plain conical foot with broken pontil mark. According to Barrington Haynes mixed twists and coloured twists, between them, make up only 2½% of eighteenth century glasses and that of the two types of stem the mixed twist makes up 44% of the group. In Churchill’s Glass Notes of 1950 this type of glass appears in the Mixed and Colour Twist group under Section 1 A subsection 10.ii (a) and would have cost you all of seven pounds ten shillings: the glass hasn’t changed but unfortunately during the intervening years the prices has gone up slightly.
DIMENSIONS:
Height – 7¼ inches;
Bowl diameter – 2⅜ inches;
Foot diameter – 2¾ inches.
CONDITION:
The glass is in faultless condition with light wear to the foot and the bowl rims.
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Antique Georgian Composite Stem Wine Glass c.1750
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Pre 1800 item# 1013226 (stock# 1055)
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DESCRIPTION:
A handsome and weighty Georgian English composite stem wine glass the bell bowl with thick base sitting on a composite stem made up of a plain section above a multiple spiral air twist with shoulder knop all standing on a plain helmet foot. The metal of this glass is a lovely bluish grey, (a colour that seems fairly common with multiple spiral air twist glasses) and has a lovely oily feel to it.
DIMENSIONS:
Height – 61⁄2 inches;
Bowl diameter – 21⁄2 inches;
Foot diameter – 25⁄8 inches.
CONDITION:
In fine condition with no discernible faults and showing normal age related wear.
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RARE FORM GEORGIAN MIXED TWIST WINE GLASS C. 1765
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Pre 1800 item# 987737 (stock# 921)
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£595
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Bickerton illustrates a similar wine glass in his book, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses, on page 206 fig. 603 and classifies the stem as a single series opaque twist. However, it can be argued this classification is erroneous and that the glass should be considered as being a mixed twist. The glass offered here is in some ways superior to the one illustrated by Bickerton in that this glass has a rib moulded round funnel bowl as oppposed to the rather austere plain ogee bowl in Bickerton's example. The stem is made up of an elongated tear which interestingly and confusingly reflects the surrounding four spiral tapes to make the stem look more complex than it actually is. The foot is of the plain conical form. The glass measures 14 cm tall, 4.9 cm across the bowl and the foot 6.9 cm. The glass is in fine condition with normal age related wear to the bowl and foot rims. It should be mentioned that there is a small "seed" in the bowl which can be seen in picture two.
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