Sandbanks Antiques has dated this piece to the Georgian era.
The tall ogee bowl on a slender stem containing a multi-coloured multi-ply corkscrew incorporating a central opaque sky-blue thread, an opaque ochre-yellow thread, and two opaque iron-red threads, all separated by multiple opaque white threads, over a conical foot, 19.1cm high
Provenance:-
Delomosne and Son, 29 December 1995
The Leuba Collection
Bonhams, London
This includes a blue and canary-yellow colour twist ale flute sold by Bonhams on 13 December 2023, lot 171.
The glass is in good condition with no damage.
A tiny bubble within the bowl, just below the rim, is entirely
natural and from manufacture.
There is typical light scratching and wear underneath the foot as expected
where this glass has been standing for some 230 years approx.
Sandbanks Antiques has dated this piece to the Georgian era.
Specialising in antique silver, gold boxes, gold coins and objects de vertu. Rare fine-quality imperial chinese porcelain, jades, cloisonné
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An Exceptionally Rare George III Colour Twist Ale Flute, circa 1765
