A rare opaque twist sweetmeat or champagne glass, circa 1765

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A rare opaque twist sweetmeat or champagne glass, circa 1765 The honeycomb-moulded double-ogee bowl set on a double collar, the stem with a pair of heavy opaque white spiral tapes outside a lace twist, the domed folded foot also with honeycomb moulding, 16.5cm high Footnotes: Provenance With Marris Antiques, March 2016 Graham Slater Collection, Bonhams, 26 June 2025, lot 89 Literature L M Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), p.223, no.673 For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing

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A rare opaque twist sweetmeat or champagne glass, circa 1765

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