The Tughan Collection
A catalogue to accompany the online exhibition and sale of The Kenneth Tughan collection of Baluster glasses.
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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Tughan</strong> <strong>Collection</strong> of<br />
English Baluster Glasses<br />
Delomosne & Son Ltd<br />
Court Close, North Wraxall,<br />
Chippenham, Wiltshire SN14 7AD<br />
September 2017
Copyright © Delomosne & Son Ltd 2017<br />
All rights reserved.<br />
Contents:<br />
Foreword Pages 3-4<br />
How to view and Buy Page 4<br />
Group Photographs Pages 6-9<br />
Individual glasses Pages 10-51<br />
Close up photographs Pages 52-58<br />
Prices Page 59<br />
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Foreword:<br />
We are delighted to be able to offer this fine collection of<br />
baluster glasses belonging to Kenneth <strong>Tughan</strong>. An avid<br />
collector for most of his life, Kenneth began to concentrate<br />
on glass in the late 1970s. From his home in Co. Down, he<br />
and his wife Carole made frequent forays to London in<br />
pursuit of his quest, visiting fairs, auctions and specialist<br />
antique shops. As time went by he began to specialise in two<br />
particular areas, one of which, quite naturally, was Irish<br />
glass, the other being heavy baluster glasses from the early<br />
years of the eighteenth century. This beguiling interest was<br />
ignited by his visit to our showroom, then in Campden Hill<br />
Road, on the 1st of May 1985. On this day we opened the<br />
Baluster Family Exhibition, which comprised the collection<br />
of Dr Clarence Lewis of Toronto, Canada. Dr Lewis had<br />
been a customer for many years and had built the finest<br />
collection of baluster glasses known to us. A small crowd<br />
assembled on our doorstep and at the given hour were<br />
admitted to make their purchases. What ensued might be<br />
described as a bun fight as rarely had such a good collection<br />
of balusters come onto the market. In amongst the turmoil<br />
Kenneth managed to secure his first serious baluster glass,<br />
no. 12a, now no. 12 in this current exhibition.<br />
As the years went by Kenneth’s collection rapidly grew into<br />
something to be proud of. It became his mission to acquire<br />
as many glasses from the Lewis collection as possible, as and<br />
when they appeared on the market. Ultimately he succeeded<br />
in gathering no less than fourteen of these glasses, twelve of<br />
which are now offered for sale here. For any collection a<br />
good provenance is highly desirable and Kenneth’s collection<br />
is rich in that department. <strong>The</strong> other important source for<br />
acquisitions was our mutual great friend, the late John Towse,<br />
whose collection of baluster goblets, cordials and glasses in<br />
general was legendary.<br />
I do not propose to regurgitate here a history of English<br />
glassmaking or to detail the finer differences in the variety<br />
and combination of knops in stems. This can be read in the<br />
introduction to the Baluster Family Catalogue and I cannot<br />
recommend highly enough Dwight Lanmon’s survey of John<br />
Bryan’s collection in <strong>The</strong> Golden Age of English Glass. You<br />
will there learn all there is to know on the subject. But I<br />
would draw your attention briefly to a few highlights. <strong>The</strong><br />
majority of glasses from this period have bowls which are<br />
round funnel, conical, sometimes trumpet and especially bellshaped<br />
from about 1725. Others less common are thistle and<br />
bucket shapes, but then there are a number of curiosities<br />
which a glance through the early books on the subject will<br />
reveal. I refer to a variety of double ogee or pan-top bowls,<br />
and even tulip-shaped ones which rarely appear for sale these<br />
days. <strong>The</strong>re are no less than six such glasses of this type in<br />
the collection.<br />
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Of particular note is the so-called lemon glass at no. 36.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re can only be a very few in existence and it is unlikely<br />
that many were ever made. All the rare knop forms are<br />
represented here. Egg, acorn, mushroom and cylinder are the<br />
notorious ones, but who has ever seen a ball knop as large as<br />
no. 6? If size of knop is the focus of attention then nos. 2 and<br />
31 are remarkable; if it is weight then nos. 4 and 15 are<br />
exceptional.<br />
A further important consideration when forming a collection<br />
of balusters is that one should seek out those which are well<br />
made as there are so many that were not. Proportion is key<br />
and execution of the stem paramount, with well balanced and<br />
well defined knops. Inevitably some glasses are less<br />
satisfactory than others in design but this general rule should<br />
always be borne in mind. All the glasses here fulfil that<br />
criteria. Condition is important too, and all glasses are in<br />
original, unrestored state. <strong>The</strong>re is no damage other than<br />
some slight wear in some bowls which is all too common but<br />
here it is not serious at all. Occasionally there is an open<br />
bubble, but this is common too and not to be unduly<br />
concerned about.<br />
A time comes for most of us when a move to a smaller, more<br />
manageable property becomes attractive and possessions<br />
have to be jettisoned. Kenneth’s unrivalled collection of Irish<br />
glass is now in the National Museum of Ireland and it is our<br />
task here to find new homes for the other love of his glass<br />
life, his balusters.<br />
We hope you enjoy looking through this collection and may<br />
be able to find something to add to your own.<br />
Timothy Osborne<br />
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How to view and buy<br />
<strong>The</strong> glasses will be on our web site for viewing only from<br />
9.30 am on Monday 18th September. <strong>The</strong>y will also be<br />
available to view in our North Wraxall showroom from 9.30<br />
am to 5.30 daily from Monday the 18th September until<br />
Saturday the 23rd September.<br />
<strong>The</strong> glasses will be available for purchase from 11am on<br />
Monday 25th September. Nothing will be sold before that<br />
time.<br />
If you wish to purchase a glass, please either telephone us,<br />
send us an email or come to the shop from 11am on the 25th.<br />
Priority will be given to people who are here in person. If<br />
you would like to give us a ‘wish list’ in advance, please do<br />
and if the glass you would like is still available after the<br />
initial rush we can put your name on it.<br />
We will not be having a marquee as we have done in<br />
previous years as this is primarily an online exhibition and<br />
we do not expect a lot of visitors on opening day.<br />
Glasses can be taken or posted as soon as paid for. Postage<br />
will be charged as an extra cost.<br />
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From left to right: 24, 1, 26, 6, 8 & 42 From left to right: 7, 40, 2, 21, 29 & 4<br />
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From left to right: 15, 30, 20, 11, 10, 31 & 42 From left to right: 14, 32, 25, 9, 17 & 5<br />
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From left to right: 19, 28, 39, 23, 22 & 16 From left to right: 35, 33, 38, 13, 12 & 3<br />
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From left to right: 18, 27, 34, 36, 37 & 41<br />
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<strong>The</strong> Glasses<br />
1.<br />
A fine coin goblet with round funnel bowl over a hollow knop<br />
with raspberry prunts containing a silver four pence dated 1689,<br />
above an inverted baluster and folded foot.<br />
English c.1700-20 Height 24.2 cm<br />
<strong>Collection</strong>s:<br />
Illustrated:<br />
Sir John Risley.<br />
Walter F. Smith.<br />
Dr George Penny.<br />
G. Seton Veitch.<br />
W. B. Haynes, <strong>The</strong> Glorious Memory, <strong>The</strong><br />
Antique Collector, May/June 1949, fig. 4. 1<br />
<strong>The</strong> Seton Veitch <strong>Collection</strong>, Delomosne &<br />
Son Ltd, North Wraxall, no. 5.<br />
A magnificent coin goblet, well made and of excellent<br />
proportions. One of a group of glasses made in the early<br />
eighteenth century which frequently contain a seventeenth<br />
century coin. <strong>The</strong> maker has decorated the hollow knop with<br />
prunts, a feature sometimes seen at this date and which is a<br />
throw-back to seventeenth-century glass making.<br />
This glass was lot 83 in the Walter F. Smith sale at Sotheby’s on<br />
4th December, 1967.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re is an small open bubble to the outside of the bowl.<br />
1 Cited by Sotheby’s in the Walter F. Smith Catalogue 4th December, 1967<br />
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2.<br />
A goblet, the deep round funnel bowl with solid base on a stem<br />
with wide angular and base knops with central tear and with<br />
wide folded foot.<br />
English c. 1710<br />
Provenance:<br />
Height 20.7 cm<br />
Alan F. Green.<br />
Delomosne & Son Ltd.<br />
A fine heavy baluster goblet in brilliant metal with a particularly<br />
large and handsome angular knop.<br />
A comparable glass, but not with such a wide knop, was in the<br />
A. C. Hubbard <strong>Collection</strong>, see Lloyd, W., A Wine-lover’s<br />
Glasses: <strong>The</strong> A. C. Hubbard, Jr. <strong>Collection</strong>, Richard Dennis,<br />
Somerset, 2000.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re is very minor wear to the interior of the bowl.<br />
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3.<br />
A wineglass, the round funnel bowl with solid base over an<br />
inverted baluster stem with large tear and on a folded foot.<br />
English c. 1710-15 Height 15.5 cm<br />
Provenance:<br />
Delomosne & Son Ltd.<br />
A good glass of simple form in fine bright metal.<br />
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4.<br />
A massive deceptive toastmaster’s glass, the thick conical bowl<br />
on an inverted baluster stem with large tear and on a thick foot.<br />
English c. 1710-15 Height 6.5 cm<br />
<strong>Collection</strong>s:<br />
Exhibited:<br />
Illustrated:<br />
Arthur Lewis.<br />
John Towse.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Glass Circle 50th Anniversary<br />
Exhibition.<br />
Strange and Rare: 50th Anniversary<br />
Exhibition 1937-1987 <strong>The</strong> Glass Circle,<br />
London, 1987, no. 31.<br />
A remarkable and most unusual glass of great weight and size.<br />
Weight is 1lb 12oz or 790g.<br />
<strong>The</strong> king of toastmasters’ glasses.<br />
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5.<br />
A wineglass, the round funnel bowl with solid base on a stem<br />
with teared angular knop on a domed and terraced foot.<br />
English c. 1710-20 Height 16.8 cm<br />
<strong>Collection</strong>s:<br />
Sir John Risley.<br />
Walter F Smith.<br />
Henry Fox.<br />
A fine-looking glass with a particularly rare foot type, more<br />
often seen in taper and candlesticks.<br />
This glass was lot 629 in the Walter F. Smith sale at Sotheby’s<br />
on 24th June, 1968. A very similar glass is illustrated by Ward<br />
Lloyd, Investing in Georgian Glass, p. 39. Glasses with similar<br />
feet are illustrated in Thorpe, W. A., A History of English and<br />
Irish Glass, Vol. II, <strong>The</strong> Medici Society, London, 1929, pl. LII,<br />
figs. 1, 2 & 3.<br />
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6.<br />
A wineglass, the round funnel bowl with solid base and tear, on<br />
a stem with a large ball knop with tear and short knopped<br />
section, on a folded foot.<br />
English c. 1710-15 Height 13.8 cm<br />
<strong>Collection</strong>:<br />
John and Pamela Whittle.<br />
<strong>The</strong> very large ball knop makes this glass an exceptional<br />
example. Rarely is this unusual knop so clearly and<br />
emphatically employed.<br />
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7.<br />
A large goblet with round funnel bowl on a half knop above a<br />
generous inverted baluster stem with large tear and on a folded<br />
foot.<br />
English c. 1710-15 Height 23.5 cm<br />
<strong>Collection</strong>s:<br />
Illustrated:<br />
Dr Clarence Lewis.<br />
John Towse.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Baluster Family, Delomosne & Son<br />
Ltd, London, 1985, no. 2.<br />
A splendid glass of great distinction, good colour and fine<br />
proportion. <strong>The</strong> half knop under the bowl only appears on the<br />
highest-quality glasses.<br />
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8.<br />
A fine goblet, the round funnel bowl over a small knop, with<br />
angular and base knopped stem with linking tear over a domed<br />
and folded foot.<br />
English c. 1710-20 Height 20.5 cm<br />
<strong>Collection</strong>:<br />
Illustrated:<br />
Martin Mortimer MBE.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Baluster Family (front cover),<br />
Delomosne & Son Ltd, London, 1985.<br />
This lovely goblet provided the inspiration for the line drawing<br />
made for the front cover of <strong>The</strong> Baluster Family catalogue. It was<br />
chosen for its elegant form and fine proportions; the<br />
quintessential baluster glass.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re is minor wear to the interior of the bowl.<br />
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9.<br />
A goblet, the round funnel bowl with solid base and large tear<br />
over a triple annulated and base knop stem with linking tear on a<br />
domed and folded foot.<br />
English c. 1710-15 Height 19.4 cm<br />
<strong>Collection</strong>:<br />
John Towse.<br />
A fine heavy glass in brilliant metal with the early type of triple<br />
annulated knop having the centre ring at least twice as thick as<br />
those above and below. Very good colour.<br />
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10.<br />
A rare wineglass, the pan-top bowl with solid base on a stem<br />
with a large drop knop with tear on a domed and folded foot.<br />
English c. 1710-20 Height 15.3 cm<br />
Double ogee or pan-top bowls are very scarce in the baluster<br />
period. This is an excellent example with its cone-shaped drop<br />
knop and elegant domed foot.<br />
For the bowl shape see Bickerton, L. M., Eighteenth Century<br />
English Drinking Glasses: An Illustrated Guide, Antique<br />
Collectors’ Club, Woodbridge, 1971, no. 104, p. 77.<br />
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11.<br />
A large wineglass, the tulip bowl with solid base on a stem with<br />
hollow drop knop, plain section and base knop on a folded foot.<br />
English c. 1715-20 Height 17.7 cm<br />
<strong>Collection</strong>:<br />
John Towse.<br />
A most unusual and rare form of glass for this period. It is<br />
lighter in weight than some due to the volume of air in the stem.<br />
For the form see Hartshorne, A., Old English Glasses, Edward<br />
Arnold, London, 1897, p. 236, fig. 169. For a glass from the<br />
same set see the Walter F. Smith <strong>Collection</strong>, Sotheby’s, 18th<br />
March, 1968, lot 333.<br />
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12.<br />
A goblet, the thistle bowl with solid base, engraved with the<br />
arms of the City of Delft beneath the inscription GOEDE REGE<br />
RINGE VAN DELFT, the stem with mushroom and base knops<br />
on a folded foot.<br />
English c. 1710-20 Height 18.2 cm<br />
<strong>Collection</strong>s:<br />
Illustrated:<br />
Roy Dunstan.<br />
Dr Clarence Lewis.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Baluster Family, Delomosne & Son<br />
Ltd, London, 1985, no.12a;<br />
Glass Notes 12, Arthur Churchill Ltd,<br />
London, 1952, fig. 2.<br />
<strong>The</strong> classic form for a mushroom knop having a thistle bowl. It<br />
is likely that the engraving is English in spite of the Dutch<br />
subject matter.<br />
For other engraved baluster glasses see Lanmon, Dwight P., <strong>The</strong><br />
Golden Age of English Glass 1650-1775, Antique Collectors’<br />
Club, Woodbridge, 2011, p. 140.<br />
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13.<br />
A wineglass, the bell bowl with tear in solid base on a hollow<br />
inverted baluster stem containing a threepenny coin dated 1708,<br />
and base knop on a folded foot.<br />
English c.1710-20 Height 16.1 cm<br />
<strong>Collection</strong>s:<br />
Illustrated:<br />
W. Randolph Hearst.<br />
Kirkby Mason.<br />
Harrison Hughes.<br />
Dr Clarence Lewis.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Baluster Family, Delomosne & Son<br />
Ltd, London, 1985, no. 5.<br />
A nicely made coin glass with the entire stem hollow instead of<br />
a knop only. For once the coin date is a good indicator for the<br />
date of manufacture of the glass.<br />
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14.<br />
A heavy wineglass, the thistle bowl with large solid base with<br />
collar beneath on a short, four-sided pedestal stem with central<br />
air column on a heavy plain foot.<br />
English c. 1715-20 Height 16.2 cm<br />
<strong>Collection</strong>:<br />
Lord McAlpine.<br />
A very good example from a series of massively made glasses<br />
with four-sided stems and exaggerated thistle bowls. A fine<br />
glass.<br />
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15.<br />
An unusual goblet, with double ogee cup-shaped bowl with tear<br />
to base, on a wide cushion knop with half knop below and base<br />
knop over a high domed plain foot.<br />
English c.1710-20 Height 17.7 cm<br />
<strong>Collection</strong>:<br />
John Towse.<br />
A rare glass of considerable weight and a fine example of the<br />
rare double ogee bowl. <strong>The</strong>re was only one such glass in the<br />
Baluster Family 1985 exhibition. It weighs 1lb 8oz or 720g.<br />
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16.<br />
A heavy wineglass, the round funnel bowl with solid base and<br />
tear set on a wide triple annulated knop with tear, short plain<br />
section and base knop, with thick plain domed foot.<br />
English c. 1710-15 Height 13.9 cm<br />
A good stout glass with the early wide annular knop. <strong>The</strong> metal<br />
is bright and of a good colour.<br />
A very similar wineglass is illustrated in Bickerton, L. M.,<br />
Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses: An Illustrated<br />
Guide, Antique Collectors’ Club, Woodbridge, 1971, no. 83, p.<br />
72, probably that sold by Sotheby’s in the Henry Brown<br />
<strong>Collection</strong>, 14th November, 1947, lot 221.<br />
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17.<br />
A fine cordial glass, the small waisted bucket bowl on a wide<br />
collar, the plain stem with central swelling knop and large tear<br />
and base knop on a plain foot.<br />
English c.1715-25 Height 14.8 cm<br />
<strong>Collection</strong>s:<br />
Illustrated:<br />
W Horridge.<br />
John Towse.<br />
“….Strength and Chearfulness",<br />
Delomosne & Son Ltd, North Wraxall,<br />
1997, no. 2b.<br />
Cordials are rare in the baluster period and this is an exceptional<br />
example with its small, squat bowl.<br />
A glass of this pattern but with a larger bowl is illustrated in<br />
Turnbull G. & Herron A. <strong>The</strong> Price Guide to English 18th<br />
Century Drinking Glasses, Antique Collectors’ Club,<br />
Woodbridge, 1970, p. 29.<br />
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18.<br />
A sweetmeat glass with wide, shallow double ogee bowl on a<br />
short inverted baluster stem with tear and with plain domed<br />
foot.<br />
English c. 1715-20 Height 12 cm<br />
A rare early sweetmeat glass of pleasing design, all the better for<br />
being unadorned.<br />
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19.<br />
A large wineglass, the bell bowl with solid base over a sevenring<br />
annulated knop stem with base knop on a folded foot.<br />
English c.1720-25 Height 17.2 cm<br />
Provenance:<br />
Delomosne & Son Ltd.<br />
<strong>The</strong> seven-ring annular knop is the rarest in this sub-family.<br />
Here is a superb example with a generous and almost perfectly<br />
symmetrical knop. A very good glass indeed.<br />
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20.<br />
A wineglass with cup-shaped double ogee bowl on a teared<br />
inverted baluster stem and folded foot.<br />
English c.1720-30 Height 13 cm<br />
A rare glass with exaggerated double ogee bowl, so scarce at<br />
that time.<br />
A very similar or possibly the same glass is illustrated in<br />
Francis, Grant, R., Old English Drinking Glasses: <strong>The</strong>ir<br />
Chronology and Sequence, Herbert Jenkins Ltd., London, 1926,<br />
pl. V, fig. 25 and again in Bickerton, L. M., Eighteenth Century<br />
English Drinking Glasses: An Illustrated Guide, Antique<br />
Collectors’ Club, Woodbridge, 1971, no. 57, pl. 65.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re is a small open bubble to the outside of the bowl.<br />
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21.<br />
A wineglass, the conical bowl with solid base and tear on a<br />
collar and a large drop knop with tear and base knop on a<br />
domed and folded foot.<br />
English c. 1710-15 Height 16.2 cm<br />
<strong>Collection</strong>:<br />
Illustrated:<br />
Dr Clarence Lewis.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Baluster Family, Delomosne & Son<br />
Ltd, London, 1985, no. 15a.<br />
A splendid example of a big early drop knop, the whole glass<br />
being defined by the collar under the bowl. A fine glass.<br />
For a very similar glass see Bate, P., English Table Glass,<br />
George Newnes Ltd, London, 1905, pl. VI, no. 17. Another was<br />
in the Vergette <strong>Collection</strong>, Sotheby’s 28th March, 1966, lot 134.<br />
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22.<br />
A wineglass, the round funnel bowl on stem with egg-type knop,<br />
angular and base knops with linking tear on a folded foot.<br />
English c. 1720-25 Height 13.2 cm<br />
This is a pretty glass with a rare upper knop. This stem form is<br />
occasionally seen with an inverted baluster under the bowl but<br />
the present arrangement is most unusual.<br />
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23.<br />
A rare wineglass, the round funnel bowl with centre knop over<br />
half knop, the stem with good egg knop and tear with base knop<br />
on a folded foot.<br />
English c. 1710-15 Height 17.1 cm<br />
<strong>Collection</strong>s:<br />
Illustrated:<br />
Roy Dunstan.<br />
Dr Clarence Lewis.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Baluster Family, Delomosne & Son<br />
Ltd, London, 1985, no. 14.<br />
An excellent example of an egg knop, often considered to be the<br />
rarest of all. It did not always lend itself to an elegant design<br />
but here it has worked very well. A fine and rare glass.<br />
<strong>The</strong> glass rocks slightly but it stands straight.<br />
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24.<br />
A fine and rare large wineglass, the trumpet bowl with solid<br />
base and tear on a cylinder knop stem with central tear, collar<br />
and flattened knop on a domed and folded foot.<br />
English c. 1715<br />
<strong>Collection</strong>:<br />
Illustrated:<br />
Height 18.6 cm<br />
Dr Clarence Lewis.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Baluster Family, Delomosne & Son<br />
Ltd, London, 1985, no. 13b.<br />
A superb example of a cylinder knop in the classic layout. <strong>The</strong><br />
cylinder itself is beautifully and generously made.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re is slight wear to the interior of the bowl.<br />
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25.<br />
A cordial glass, the small trumpet bowl with teared solid base<br />
over flattened knop and collar with long, teared, cylinder knop,<br />
with half and base knops, on a plain foot.<br />
English c. 1715-25 Height 16.8 cm<br />
<strong>Collection</strong>s:<br />
Illustrated:<br />
Dr Clarence Lewis.<br />
John Towse.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Baluster Family, Delomosne & Son<br />
Ltd, London, 1985, no. 13a.<br />
“….Strength & Chearfulness", Delomosne<br />
& Son Ltd, North Wraxall, 1997, no. 1a.<br />
<strong>The</strong> rare cordial version of the cylinder knop theme, this one<br />
finely made in bright metal and with good colour.<br />
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26.<br />
A wineglass, the round funnel bowl with solid base and tear,<br />
over a collar and large inverted acorn knop and on folded foot.<br />
English c. 1710-15 Height 13.9 cm<br />
<strong>Collection</strong>:<br />
Illustrated:<br />
Dr Clarence Lewis.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Baluster Family, Delomosne & Son<br />
Ltd, London, 1985, no. 10a.<br />
An extremely rare example of an inverted acorn knop. Apart<br />
from the half knop to the base, the entire stem is formed by the<br />
large acorn.<br />
<strong>The</strong> bowl has a very slight scratch.<br />
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27.<br />
A goblet, the bucket bowl with everted rim, the stem with teared<br />
inverted baluster and base knops on large folded foot.<br />
English c. 1715-20 Height 18.7 cm<br />
<strong>The</strong> bucket bowl does not often appear at this period but when it<br />
does it can make for a very pleasing form, as in this nice<br />
example.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re is slight wear to the interior of the bowl.<br />
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28.<br />
A very fine goblet, the round funnel bowl with teared solid base<br />
and half knop on a teared inverted baluster stem and on domed<br />
and folded foot and with helmet cover.<br />
English c. 1715-25 Height 28.5 cm<br />
<strong>Collection</strong>s:<br />
Illustrated:<br />
<strong>The</strong> Earl of Haddington.<br />
G. Seton Veitch.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Seton Veitch <strong>Collection</strong>, Delomosne &<br />
Son Ltd. North Wraxall, 2006, no. 6c.<br />
A wonderful, elegant glass with great presence which is<br />
considerably elevated by its fine cover. Covers are rarely seen<br />
on English glasses, though doubtless many have not survived.<br />
A glass of similar form with cover is in the John Bryan<br />
<strong>Collection</strong>, see Lanmon, Dwight P., <strong>The</strong> Golden Age of English<br />
Glass 1650-1775, Antique Collectors’ Club, Woodbridge, 2011,<br />
p. 106.<br />
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29.<br />
A goblet with round funnel bowl on a stem with opposing<br />
baluster knops each with a tear and with central collar on a<br />
domed and folded foot.<br />
English c. 1715-20 Height 21 cm<br />
An unusual stem form most often seen in the wineglass size. It<br />
is rare in a goblet and this one is in fine bright metal.<br />
A glass from the same set is illustrated in Thorpe, W. A., English<br />
& Irish Glass, <strong>The</strong> Medici Society, London, 1927, fig. 9, and<br />
was in the Hamilton Clements collection; later sold in the<br />
Thomas <strong>Collection</strong>, Bonham’s, 4th June, 2008, lot 11.<br />
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30.<br />
A rare goblet, the deep double-ogee bowl with solid base on<br />
stem with large angular knop with tear on a high domed and<br />
folded foot.<br />
English c. 1715-30 Height 21.3 cm<br />
<strong>Collection</strong>s:<br />
Illustrated:<br />
G. F. Berney.<br />
Walter F. Smith.<br />
Bles, J., Rare English Glasses of the 17th &<br />
18th Centuries, Geoffrey Bles, London,<br />
1925, no. 131.<br />
Thorpe, W. A., A History of English and<br />
Irish Glass, Vol II, <strong>The</strong> Medici Society,<br />
London, 1929, pl. XLIX , fig 2.<br />
Apollo, London, October 1936,<br />
Hughes, G. Bernard, English, Scottish &<br />
Irish Table Glass, Bramhall House, New<br />
York, 1956, pl. 37b.<br />
A very rare glass, particularly in goblet size. <strong>The</strong> high domed<br />
foot is notable as well as the double ogee bowl, so uncommon at<br />
this period.<br />
This glass was lot no. 657 in the Walter F. Smith <strong>Collection</strong> sold<br />
at Sotheby’s on 24th June, 1968. Part of the catalogue<br />
description reads “originally one of a pair of celebrated<br />
goblets”.<br />
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31.<br />
A rare goblet, the tulip bowl drawn down into a massive drop<br />
knop with large air inclusion, short stem section and domed and<br />
folded foot.<br />
English c. 1715-25 Height 17.5 cm<br />
<strong>Collection</strong>:<br />
John Towse.<br />
An extremely rare glass, the unusual bowl and huge drop knop<br />
formed from the same gather of glass.<br />
A similar glass, but with a smaller knop, is in the Tibbenham<br />
<strong>Collection</strong>, Ipswich Museum, illustrated in Bickerton, L. M.,<br />
Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses: An Illustrated<br />
Guide, Antique Collectors’ Club, Woodbridge, 1971, no. 85,<br />
p. 72.<br />
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32.<br />
An extremely rare goblet, the round funnel bowl engraved with<br />
the arms of William, Prince of Orange, beneath the toast VIVAT<br />
ORANIE on a bobbin knopped stem with central multi-teared<br />
knop and on a plain foot.<br />
English c. 1730-40 Height 20.1 cm<br />
<strong>Collection</strong>s:<br />
Illustrated:<br />
Exhibited:<br />
Henry Brown.<br />
Peter M. Woolley.<br />
Dr Clarence Lewis.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Baluster Family, Delomosne & Son<br />
Ltd, London, 1985, no.29.<br />
Prized Possessions from Private Homes,<br />
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, 1968,<br />
p. 84, no. 373.<br />
William of Orange married Anne, daughter of George II in<br />
1734, having been created Knight of the Garter the year before.<br />
This goblet is likely to have been made to celebrate the event,<br />
which fits well with the possible date of this rare stem type. A<br />
brilliant and most pleasing glass.<br />
Another, but with smaller bobbins, is illustrated in the Cinzano<br />
<strong>Collection</strong> Catalogue, Lazarus, P., Cinzano Glass <strong>Collection</strong>,<br />
London, 1974 and a similar glass, but without engraving, is in<br />
the Durrington <strong>Collection</strong>, Broadfield House Glass Museum,<br />
Dudley, 2006, no. 12, p. 11. This glass was lot 114 in the Henry<br />
Brown collection sold by Sotheby’s on 2nd July, 1947.<br />
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33.<br />
A goblet, the bell bowl on a stem with a five ring annular knop<br />
and true baluster, on plain conical foot.<br />
English c. 1725-30 Height 21 cm<br />
<strong>Collection</strong>:<br />
Lord McAlpine.<br />
A fine goblet of a type much favoured at this date. <strong>The</strong> true<br />
baluster stem is the key feature here and the annulated knop<br />
may be considered a bonus.<br />
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34.<br />
A rare dessert glass, the oval double ogee bowl with a finely<br />
engraved baroque border on a stem with an acorn knop flanked<br />
by small knops on a domed foot.<br />
English c. 1730-40 Height 16.8 cm<br />
<strong>Collection</strong>:<br />
Illustrated:<br />
Alexander.<br />
Bickerton, L. M., Eighteenth Century<br />
English Drinking Glasses: An Illustrated<br />
Guide, Antique Collectors’ Club,<br />
Woodbridge, 1971, p. 97, no. 179.<br />
An extremely rare glass often known as a ‘lemon’ glass, which<br />
may have been placed on top of a pyramid of tazzas at the<br />
dessert.<br />
A similar glass was in <strong>The</strong> Baluster Family, Delomosne & Son<br />
Ltd, London, 1985. no. 28.<br />
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35.<br />
A large wineglass, the bell bowl engraved with a basket of<br />
flowers, on a stem with a drop knop over a teared true baluster<br />
and with domed and folded foot.<br />
English c. 1715-30 Height 16.9 cm<br />
<strong>Collection</strong>:<br />
Illustrated:<br />
Dr Clarence Lewis.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Baluster Family, Delomosne & Son<br />
Ltd, London, 1985. no. 15b.<br />
A beautifully made glass of good proportions with two fine<br />
knops. <strong>The</strong> engraving is neatly done and its presence is<br />
presumably purely decorative.<br />
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36.<br />
A goblet, the bell bowl with solid base and tear, the stem with<br />
large triple annulated knop between plain sections and base<br />
knop with domed and folded foot.<br />
English c. 1720-30 Height 17.9 cm<br />
A classic glass of the period with the early triple annulated<br />
knop. In fine and bright metal.<br />
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37.<br />
A large wineglass, the bell bowl with solid base and tear, the<br />
stem with inverted baluster knop and tear and base knop, on a<br />
folded foot.<br />
English c. 1725-35 Height 19.9 cm<br />
A very nice, bright example of a relatively common glass with a<br />
good wide folded foot.<br />
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38.<br />
A goblet, the bell bowl with solid base on stem with angular<br />
knop over true baluster stem and on plain conical foot.<br />
English c. 1725-35 Height 18.3 cm<br />
<strong>The</strong> bowl of this glass is a little worn and has a small, open<br />
bubble and some slight fogging to the lower part; otherwise a<br />
good glass.<br />
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39.<br />
A small wineglass, the bell bowl with large tear to base on an<br />
inverted baluster stem with base knop and with folded foot.<br />
English c. 1725-35 Height 12.2 cm<br />
<strong>Collection</strong>s:<br />
Illustrated:<br />
Dr Clarence Lewis.<br />
Harding.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Baluster Family, Delomosne & Son<br />
Ltd, London, 1985. no. 3a.<br />
A neat little glass in a size smaller than is usually seen.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re is a slight scour mark to a small area within the bowl.<br />
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40.<br />
A small wineglass with bell bowl, the stem with plain section<br />
and true baluster with base knop, on a folded foot.<br />
English c. 1725-35 Height 12.6 cm<br />
An uncommon stem in a glass of this size. <strong>The</strong> type is<br />
sometimes known as a gin glass.<br />
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41.<br />
A sweetmeat glass with panel-moulded bowl on stem with<br />
collar, triple annulated knop, base knop and with folded foot.<br />
English c. 1730-45 Height 12.2 cm<br />
A very nice sweetmeat glass with the moulding in the bowl well<br />
defined. <strong>The</strong> metal is of a good dark colour.<br />
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42.<br />
An unusual dram glass, the deep bell bowl on collars and large<br />
multi-teared knop and with domed and terraced foot.<br />
English c. 1730-40 Height 13.5 cm<br />
A most unusual glass but almost certainly for drinking as<br />
opposed to dessert. It sits well in the hand, is bright and of good<br />
colour.<br />
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