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The Peter Eales Collection
Lot 34

An unusual deceptive baluster wine or toastmaster's glass, circa 1720-30

11 June 2025, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £640 inc. premium

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An unusual deceptive baluster wine or toastmaster's glass, circa 1720-30

The thick-walled flared bowl set on an unusual inverted cone stem with a shoulder knop, over a folded conical foot, 13.4cm high

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Provenance
Peter Eales Collection

A wine glass with a similar inverted cone stem is illustrated by L M Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1987), p.99, no.190.

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