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The Tughan Collection

A catalogue to accompany the online exhibition and sale of The Kenneth Tughan collection of Baluster glasses.

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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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