Bobbin Stem Baluster Goblet c1740

Description

Heading : Bobbin Stem Baluster Goblet
Origin : England or Netherlands
Colour : Clear. blue-grey hue
Bowl : Round funnel
Stem : Three graduated flattened ball knops above an air beaded ball knop above three futher graduated flattened ball knops
Foot : Conical
Pontil : Snapped
Glass Type : Lead
Size :  Height 19.8cm. bowl 8.8 and foot 8.9
Condition : Very good. A few scattered light scratches within the bowl and an area of abrasion on the exterior bowl. Scattered particles of clinker
Restoration : None
Weight: 372g

References : Purchased at Bonhams 15th November 2023 Lot 17. Ex-Durrington Collection.

www.bonhams.com/auction/29288/lot/17/a-rare-bobbin-knopped-baluster-goblet-circa-1735-45

We have little add to the description provided by Jim Peake at Bonhams other than to reinforce the argument that Dutch engraved balusters and light balusters were probably made in the Netherlands and perhaps not exported from Newcastle or elsewhere to be engraved within the provinces. We have subscribed to this theory for longer than most and with justification. lead glass is known to have been produced in Namur in Belgium during the 1760s and glass known to have been produced in Antwerp has been demonstarted to contain between 12 and twenty percent lead oxide.

This is one of the finest bobbin stems that we have had the pleasure of describing.

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