Very Rare Early English Cut Lead Glass Tumbler c1760

Description

Heading : An Early English Cut Lead Glass Tumbler
Period : c1760
Origin : England 
Colour : Clear. grey hue
Bowl : Slightly tapered and thick walled.. Broad flat cut diamonds with medial split cuts. below cut arches. Slice cut rim and finger bottoms
Base : Broad polished pontil with remnants of th pontil scar in the centre
Glass Type : Lead 
Size : 11.6 cm height. 8.7 cm diameter bowl. 6.7 cm diameter foot 
Condition : Excellent. no chips or cracks 
Restoration : None 
Weight: 391 grams 

The cutting is so highly irregular and the polishing poor. Every polished facet. there are twenty two cuts within each diamond formation has been polished on a wood block with pumice as evidenced by the band of parallel five scratches remaining at the outside edge of each cut. This will have been cut on a treddle powered by the cutter. We have only seen one similar cutting pattern on some wine rinsers.

One for the whisky lover.