£420.00
$525.42
Product Code: 2022052615
Technical Description
A superb 18th-century air twist wine glass. It has a pan top bowl above a multi spiral air twist stem with a basal swelling knop. Conical foot with a snapped pontil.
A very unusual form.
Date & Origin
England, c1750. Period of George II.
Condition
Excellent, Age-related wear as shown. No chips cracks or restoration
Dimensions
Height: 15.2cm Bowl Diameter: 5.7cm Foot diameter: 6.5cm.
Comments
In 1748 David Hume publishes An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding and in 1754 Joseph Black discovers "fixed air" (carbon dioxide)
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