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The Peter Eales Collection
Lot 15

A deceptive heavy baluster dram or toastmaster's glass, circa 1710-20

11 June 2025, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

£700 - £1,000

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A deceptive heavy baluster dram or toastmaster's glass, circa 1710-20

The thick-walled solid conical bowl on a short inverted baluster stem containing a tear, over a conical folded foot, 11.5cm high

Footnotes

Provenance
With Delomosne and Son, June 2014
Peter Eales Collection

A similar glass from the Walter F Smith Collection is illustrated by Delomosne and Son in their catalogue, The Baluster Family (1985), no.18c. Compare also to the example from the Dwight P Lanmon Collection sold by Bonhams on 21 June 2022, lot 38.

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