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The Peter Eales Collection
Lot 19

A very rare baluster goblet, circa 1710-20

11 June 2025, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A very rare baluster goblet, circa 1710-20

The thistle bowl with a solid base set on a rounded half knop forming an acorn, the stem with an angular knop containing a tear extending into a small basal knop, over a conical folded foot, 17.5cm high

Footnotes

Provenance
C F Brereton Collection
Richard Emanuel Collection
With Delomosne and Son
Bonhams, 13 November 2013, lot 69
Peter Eales Collection

Literature
Arthur Churchill, Glass Notes, No.14 (December 1954), p.36, no.II.A.vii(a)
Antique Collector, Vol.26, No.3 (June 1955)
Delomosne and Son, A Gathering of Glass (2010), no.3b

A similar glass is illustrated by Delomosne and Son in the catalogue, The Baluster Family (1985), pp.26-7, no.11a. Compare also to the mushroom-knopped goblet illustrated by Dwight P Lanmon, The Golden Age of English Glass (2011), pp.116-7, no.33, where the author cites three further parallels including the present lot.

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