SOLD – Georgian Engraved Plain Stem Ale Glass c1745.

Description

A Georgian Plain Stem Ale Glass from c1750.

It has a drawn trumpet bowl which has been finely engraved with hops and barley above a conical folded foot with snapped pontil.

English lead. no chips cracks or restoration. it measures 5 ½ inches tall with a 2 1/8 inch bowl and 2 5/8 inch foot. Every collection should have at least one example.

References :            

Investing In Gregorian Glass. By Ward Lloyd – Page 61. 

Miller’s Collecting Glass By Sarah Yates – Page 53.

Dwarf Ale Glasses and their Victorian Successors By Stephen Parry – Page 3.