A mixed-twist toasting glass, circa 1760-65
Of drawn trumpet shape with a slender stem containing an opaque white gauze column encircled by a pair of mercurial air spirals, on a shallow conical foot, 19cm high
Provenance
Robert Manners Collection
This, or a companion glass is illustrated by L M Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking glasses (1986 edition), p.233, fig. 710.
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Of drawn trumpet shape with a slender stem containing an opaque white gauze column encircled by a pair of mercurial air spirals, on a shallow conical foot, 19cm high
Provenance
Robert Manners Collection
This, or a companion glass is illustrated by L M Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking glasses (1986 edition), p.233, fig. 710.