SOLD – Georgian Rib Moulded Mixed Twist Wine Glass c1760

Description

An excellent and very rare combination of features in this 18th century mixed twist wine glass c1760. The rib moulded bowl sits above a mixed twist stem comprised of two pairs of white opaque spiral threads outside an air column. The 18th cen glass collectors “bible”  ‘Glass Through The Ages by E Barrington Haynes describes how mixed twists are rarer in quantity than English lead colour twists – ‘

The detailed records show that there are roughly forty mixed twists to every fifty colour Twists. and two varieties to every five. so there is clearly a smaller choice if the search is for a mixed twist’.

Add to this permutation the rib moulded bowl and this truly is a very rare form. we have never seen one before.

English lead. no chips cracks or restoration. it has a single seed in the bowl as shown. it measures 5 ½ inches tall with a 2 inch bowl and 2 ¾  inch foot.