
Two fine baluster sweetmeat or champagne glasses, circa 1720-40 One with a generous honeycomb-moulded lipped double-ogee bowl set on a double-collar, the stem with a triple-annulated knop above a wide teared inverted baluster with a large basal knop, the high folded domed foot also moulded with honeycomb, 16.3cm high the other with a double-ogee bowl moulded with a honeycomb pattern imitating 'nipt diamond waies', set on a double-collar, above a teared inverted baluster stem with a basal knop, the folded domed foot similarly moulded, 12cm high (2) Footnotes: Provenance With Arthur Churchill (shortest) Hamilton Clements Collection, Sotheby's, 15 May 1930, lot 98 (tallest) G F Hotblack Collection (tallest) Walter F Smith Collection, Sotheby's, 24 June 1968, lot 829 (tallest) Bonhams, 3 June 2009, lot 77 (tallest) Graham Vivian Collection (tallest) With Marris Antiques Graham Slater Collection, Bonhams, 16 April 2025, lot 549 Literature W A Thorpe (1929), A History of English and Irish Glass (1929), pl.LXX, fig.1 (tallest) For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing































