
Three attractive facet-stem wine glasses and an ale flute, circa 1765-75 One wine with a tulip bowl cut with petal-like facets to the base, on a plain hexagonal stem, the conical foot cut with broad facets, 15.2cm high, the others both engraved with similar chinoiserie landscape scenes incorporating figures and pagodas, the stems cut with hexagonal facets, one with an ogee bowl, 14.9cm high, the other with an ovoid bowl, 12.2cm high, the flute with a tall round funnel bowl engraved with hops and barley, on a short stem cut with hexagonal facets, over a conical foot, 16.5cm high (4) Footnotes: Provenance With The World is Made of Glass, January 2013 (flute) Peter Eales Collection The rarest of all facet stem glasses are those with plain hexagonal stems, see Delomosne and Son, English Wineglasses with Faceted Stems (2005), p.5, fig.d. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
































