SOLD – Sweetmeat Glass c1690

Description

An excellent early Sweetmeat Glass dating to between 1690 and 1700.

It has a lipped round funnel bowl with a folded rim and gadrooned lower bowl. Cushion knop above a tapered plain stem on a high conical folded foot.

English lead. no chips cracks or restoration. it measures 4 ½ inches tall with a 3 1/8 inch bowl and 3 inch foot.

Having both a folded rim and a folded foot it is a superb early example. exactly the same glass is shown in plate 33  ( Q36) of ‘Glass in the Eighteenth Century. The Footed Salver” by Keith Kelsall.

References :

English Glass By Ward Lock – Page 97 Plate 30.

English Glass By Sydney Crompton – Plate 30.