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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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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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