Rare Form Air Twist Wine Glass with Bell-Shaped Bowl, circa 1750

Heading : Floral Engarved Bucket Bowl Air Twist Wine Glass Period : George II - c1750 Origin : England Colour : Clear Bowl : Bucket - engraved with Lily of the Valley and Tulips Stem : Air twist stem with inverted baluster knop and flattened ball Foot : Conical Pontil : Snapped Glass Type : lead Size : 14.4cm height, 5.3cm diameter bowl, 7cm diameter foot Condition : Excellent, no chips or cracks Restoration : None Weight: 134 grams Lily of the Valley was a widely deployed symbol to represent the 'return of happiness' within a Jacobite context. Tulips were also used within acrostic sets. These are some of the ingredients of the typical Jacobite melodrama engraved upon period glassware! All the romantic intrigue of deposed royalty, a dalliance with a swooning local girl, desperate cross-country flight under the muzzles of musket-wielding troopers and their bloodthirsty commanders a tragic denouement on a desolate battlefield (and a confusing, irrelevant and untrue epilogue about someone hiding up a tree for good measure) - wow ! The Intire Glass Shop advertised Flower'd glasses on their trade card as early as 1742. With floral designs featuring prominently in decorators books...

Air Twist Stem Georgian Wine Glass, circa 1750 The capacity of the bowl is rather small, and the glass this may well have been intended for swe...

Georgian Bell Bowl Double Series Mercury Twist Wine Glass, circa 1750 Additional information: Period : George II circa 1750 Origin : England Colour : Clear Bowl : Bell shape...

Heading : Air twist stem Georgian wine glass Period : George II - c1750 Origin : England Colour : Clear Bowl : Bell Stem :Multi spiral air twist Foot : Conical Pontil : Snapped Glass...

Heading : Air twist stem Georgian wine glass Period : George II - c1750 Origin : England Colour : Clear Bowl : Round funnel Stem : A multi ply air twist corkscrew Foot : Conical Pont...

A Double Series Air Twist Stem Wine Glass, circa 1750 The central corkscrew has has an even circular cross-section. The threads within the spiral band are ovoid and have a silvere...

This is a very good English, Georgian, Hand-blown, Engraved Wine drinking glass, dating to the George II Period of the mid-18th century, circa 1745. These glasses are very collectab...

This is a good handblown, English, Georgian, 'Balustroid' wine drinking glass, dating from the middle of the 18th century, George XI period, circa 1740. It is made from English lead...

Dutch twist wine glass, ca 1750-1770 Dutch twist wine glasses were blown in the 2nd half of the 18th century. The Dutch glass consists of the twist in the stem, usually of a wick ...

This is an excellent example of an early 19th century, English, hand blown, Bristol green wine drinking glass, with an engraved bowl of acorns and oak le...

This is an excellent example of an early 19th century, English, hand blown, Bristol green wine drinking glass which we date to the George 111rd Regency p...

Georgian trumpet form toasting glass, circa 1750, England. Supremely graceful - multiple-spiral air twist. Nice gray color. Small inclusions in bowl, ...