This is a very fine and rare wine glass circa 1675 and made from lead glass. The bowl is gadrooned and it sits on a hollow mold blown stem with two grimacing faces that I interpret as grimacing lions however a glass in the Corning Museum has this very same molded stem and they are calling the faces grotesque human faces. Domed foot with folded rim. Corning attributes their glass to possibly the Glasshouse of Duke of Buckingham and they date it at 1663 for their glass is engraved as such. One distinction between Corning's glass and this glass is that my glass is of lead, theirs they say is non-lead. You can see the Corning example here - https://glasscollection.cmog.org/objects/10691/goblet?ctx=7514f059c3f599126aff16d84f8631a7f4790d15&idx=58 Height 15.24 centimeters (6 inches) Undamaged.
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Robert Girouard Antiques
SKU: 1208
$6,700.00Price
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