18th Century English Drinking Glasses

A rare English Composite Stem Baluster Mead Coin glass ca. 1711, the cup shaped bowl over a hollow knop sided by annulations and holding a 1711 coin, above an inverted baluster with tear and basal knop on a folded foot. 16.5cm high.  £3,550.

A rare and massive English Roemer c.1680-1700, from the historic collection at Nymans, West Sussex.  Provenance: from the possessions of the Countess of Rosse, Anna Parsons, sister of Oliver Messell and daughter of Maud and Leonard Messell.  Mother of the 1^stEarl of Snowdon and inheritor of the Nymans estate. Sold at Bonham’s.  The English examples that are known tend to have a grace and scale that eluded the Continental examples for the most part and are important objects for the early English glass collector. They never come with the provenance that this glass possesses. 25.5cm high. SOLD

A scarce Full Lead English Four-Paneled Hanoverian Pedestal Stem Wine Glass circa 1715, with tapered funnel bowl and folded foot.  16.2cm high. £1,950