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BAYREUTH FESTIVAL: Small selection of signed 4 x 6 postcard photographs by various opera singers comprising Hans Hotter, Grace Bumbry, Josef Greindl, Gerhard Stolze, Anja Silja and Gwyneth Jones. Most are vintage examples and depict the singers in costume poses from various operas performed at the Bayreuth Festival. Most are signed with their names alone, some to darker areas of the images, and none are inscribed. Generally VG, 6

Paar Gemälde - Anonymer Künstler aus dem 18.Jahrhundert "1. wohl einer der Baumeister der Burg Plassenburg bei Kulmbach, Herrenbildnis mit Folianten und deutscher kolorierter Landkarte, Zeigefinger deutet auf die Region Kulmbach 2. Gattin, Bildnis mit aufwendiger Kopfbedeckung und rot/blaues Kleid mit Schleife, in der rechten Hand Brief mit Text "madame Fischer neé Unger, ma trés ...Soeur Leipzig Bayreuth", unsigniert, Öl auf Leinwand (doubliert), Maße Darstellung ca. 75x63,5 cm, Altersspuren, Rahmen, Provenienz: aus Privatsammlung in Niederbayern

A fine engraved light baluster wine glass, circa 1750The round funnel bowl decorated with a rocaille border of elaborate foliate scrollwork and diaper panels, the rim with a formal border of scrollwork, flowers and foliage, resting on a merese, the multi-spiral stem with an upper acorn knop and central angular knop, over a conical foot, 17.4cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceThomas Arthur Lewis Collection, Christies, 18 November 1980, lot 92Henry Fox Collection, Bonhams, 8 December 2004, lot 38Bayreuth CollectionExhibitedGlass Circle Diamond Jubilee exhibition, 1997, no.72Two very similar glasses are illustrated by Delomosne and Son, The Seton Veitch Collection (2006), nos.31c and 31e, the former of which was sold by Bonhams as part of the Patrick and Mavis Walker Collection on 1 December 2021, lot 94. See also that from the A C Hubbard Jr. Collection, illustrated by Ward Lloyd, A Wine Lover's Glasses (2000), p.100, pl.149 (left) and sold by Bonhams on 30 November 2011, lot 256. Another similar glass from the Walter F Smith and Henry Fox Collections was sold by Bonhams on 2 June 2004, lot 52 and is illustrated by E Barrington Haynes, Glass Through the Ages (1959), pl.80c.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A very rare four-knopped airtwist wine glass, circa 1750The waisted bucket bowl on a multi-spiral airtwist stem with two upper knops above lower baluster and basal knops, over a high domed foot, 16.2cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceWith Jeanette Hayhurst, 29 December 2003Bayreuth CollectionGlasses with this rare stem formation are more usually found with bell bowls, see for example that from the Graham Vivian Collection was sold by Bonhams on 1 December 2021, lot 122. The combination of four knops with a waisted bucket bowl and domed foot is particularly rare.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A rare opaque twist mead or champagne glass, circa 1760-70The distinctive cup shaped bowl moulded with a ring of twenty evenly spaced basal flutes or gadroons, the double-series stem with a central gauze column encircled by two pairs of heavy opaque white spiral threads, over a folded conical foot, 15.7cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceHarvey's Wine Museum, Bonhams, 1 October 2003, lot 202Bayreuth CollectionLiteratureL M Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), p.219, no.656Glasses with this distinctive bowl are very rarely seen with opaque twist stems. Whilst traditionally known as mead glasses, mead was rarely drunk in Britain and it is more likely these were inspired by Continental roemers used for Rhenish wine, see Dwight Lanmon, The Golden Age of English Glass (2011), p.93. The London glass seller Thomas Betts sold '12 Green 1/2 Mo Egg Champagne' glasses which could refer to related forms. Another opaque twist mead or champagne glass from the Peter Meyer Collection was sold by Bonhams on 1 May 2013, lot 28.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A good moulded stem taperstick, circa 1740The slender cylindrical nozzle set on a beaded knop above a triple collar, the octagonal stem on a further beaded knop resting on a double-collar, over an eight-sided panel-moulded domed foot, 14.8cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceHenry Fox Collection, Bonhams, 2 June 2004, lot 47Bayreuth CollectionFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A baluster cordial glass, circa 1725-30The flared trumpet bowl with a deep solid base enclosing a tear, on a collar above a double-annulated knop, the stem with a true baluster containing a tiny tear, over a conical folded foot, 17.5cm highFootnotes:ProvenancePhillips, 10 December 1997, lot 21Bayreuth CollectionA very similar glass is illustrated by Delomosne and Son, The Baluster Family (1985), no.22a. See also those from the Stephen Pohlmann Collection sold by Bonhams on 30 November 2022, lots 9 and 10.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A propeller-knopped 'wrythen ale' glass, first quarter 18th centuryThe tall wrythen-moulded conical bowl set on a wide collar, the short 'propeller' stem with four pincered 'wings' terminating in a small basal knop, over a folded conical foot, 16.1cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceHoneybourne Museum, Royal Brierley Collection, Sotheby's, 3 March 1998, lot 48Bonhams, 10 June 2003, lot 18Bayreuth CollectionExhibitedStourbridge, Festival of Britain Exhibition, 1951, catalogue no.1(b), pl.1For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A fine Beilby enamelled opaque twist wine glass, circa 1765The round funnel bowl painted in opaque white with an assortment of fruit, including a bunch of grapes and a large pear, a bird perched on round fruit to the right, on a double-series stem containing a lace twist encircled by a pair of five-ply spiral bands, over a conical foot, 14.4cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceSir Hugh Dawson Collection, Sotheby's, 6 March 1951, lot 85Sotheby's, 20 May 1963, lot 109Cranch Collection, Phillips, 4 June 1997, lot 97Bayreuth CollectionExhibitedSalisbury Museum, 1985A very similar glass is illustrated by L M Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), p.338, no.1103 and was sold by Christie's on 14 June 1983, lot 94. For a facet stem glass with similar decoration in the Victoria and Albert Museum (inv. no.C.67-1942) see James Rush, The Ingenious Beilbys (1973), p.56, no.31. A virtually identical glass from the Darell Thompson-Schwab Collection was sold by Bonhams on 21 June 2022, lot 97.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A deceptive double-ended dram glass, first half 18th centuryWith two opposing thick-walled round funnel bowls, one a single measure and the other a double, joined by a short plain stem section, 12.8cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceBonhams, 7 June 2006, lot 29Bayreuth CollectionFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A fine Giles gilded facet stem wine glass, circa 1770Decorated in the London workshop of James Giles, the round funnel bowl decorated with a branch of fruiting vine, the reverse with scattered floral sprigs, the rim edge gilt, the base cut with thumbnail facets extending into a faceted stem with a central swelling knop, over a conical foot, 15.7cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceParkington Collection, Christie's, 16 October 1997, lot 30Bayreuth CollectionFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Two plain stem cordial glasses, circa 1740-50One with a small pan-topped bowl on a tall stem with a high domed foot, 16.3cm high, the other with a round funnel bowl on a tall stem with a folded domed foot, 16.7cm high (2)Footnotes:ProvenanceCranch Collection, Phillips, 4 June 1997, lot 24 (round funnel)Henry Fox Collection, Bonhams, 2 June 2004, lot 9 (pan-topped)Bayreuth CollectionExhibitedSalisbury Museum, 1985 (round funnel)Glass Circle Diamond Jubilee exhibition, 1997, no.56 (pan-topped)A very similar pan-topped cordial glass from the John Towse Collection is illustrated L M Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), p.142, no.355.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Two good 'Lynn' opaque twist wine glasses, circa 1765One with a generous round funnel bowl moulded with two concentric rings, the double-series stem with a central lace twist within a pair of four-ply spiral bands, over a folded conical foot, 16.4cm high, the other with a round funnel bowl moulded with six concentric rings, the double-series stem with a pair of four-ply spiral bands around a central corkscrew, on an unusual terraced foot, 14.3cm high (2)Footnotes:ProvenanceHamilton Clements Collection (shorter)Oscar Dusendschon Collection (shorter)Walter F Smith Collection, Sotheby's, 24 June 1968, lot 784 (shorter)Harvey's Wine Museum, Bonhams, 1 October 2003, lot 195 (shorter)Christie's, 11 December 2002, lot 99 (taller)Bayreuth CollectionFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A fine Giles gilded opaque twist wine glass, circa 1765The ogee bowl finely gilded with a so-called 'Grubbe' border of trellis and scrolls, scattered sprigs of flowers to the lower part, with a gilt-line rim, on an opaque twist stem with a multi-ply corkscrew encircled by a pair of heavy opaque white spiral tapes, over a conical foot, 15.2cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceWith Delomosne and Son, 15 June 2001Bayreuth CollectionThis border is of the type which led to the firm attribution of Giles's work on glass, as it is the same as that found on one of the four so-called Worcester porcelain 'Grubbe' plates in the Victoria and Albert Museum (inv. no.C.877-1935). The plates came through direct descendants of Giles and so are known to be his work, see Stephen Hanscombe, James Giles: China and Glass Painter (2005), Chapter 2 for a detailed discussion. A wine glass with a round funnel bowl gilded with the same 'Grubbe' border was sold by Bonhams on 15 November 2017, lot 90 which is illustrated alongside an identical glass by Delomosne and Son, The Seton Veitch Collection of Early English Drinking Glasses (2006), no.46.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

An interesting engraved opaque twist betrothal or marriage cordial glass of Irish interest, dated 1764 and 1765The round funnel bowl moulded with fine flutes to the lower part, inscribed below the rim in diamond-point script 'Thomas Spring Janry, 20th, 1765. Jane Maunsell October 1764/ T. S. Jane Spring December the 20th 1764. Beauti ter & amplius/ Quos irrupta tenet copula', the double-series stem with a pair of heavy opaque white corkscrew tapes within a fifteen-ply spiral band, over a domed foot, 17.4cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceParkington Collection, Christie's, 16 October 1997, lot 1Bayreuth CollectionThomas Spring (1735-1766) was born in Ballycrispin near Castlemaine, County Kerry, Ireland. He married Jane Maunsell (1744-1782) in St John in Limerick, on 20 December 1764. The Latin inscription roughly translates as 'Blessed thrice and more are those whose unbroken bond holds'.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Beilby enamelled opaque twist wine glass, circa 1765The ogee bowl painted with fruiting vine in opaque white, set on a neatly formed double-series stem containing two pairs of opaque white bands encircled by a pair of opaque white spiral tapes, over a conical foot, 15cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceHenry Fox Collection, Bonhams, 2 June 2004, lot 83Bayreuth CollectionFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A heavy baluster dram glass, circa 1710Of attractive small size, the round funnel bowl with a solid base, the stem with a wide inverted baluster containing a tear, terminating in a basal knop, over a folded conical foot, 12.7cm highFootnotes:ProvenancePhillips, 10 December 1997, lot 25Bayreuth CollectionA similar glass is illustrated by L M Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), p.76, no.98, which was sold by Bonhams on 15 December 2010, lot 20. Compare also to the example illustrated by Delomosne and Son, The baluster Family (1985), pp.40-1, no.18a.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A fine engraved opaque twist wine glass, circa 1765The ogee bowl finely engraved with a continuous chinoiserie riverscape depicting two boats with figures surrounded by islands, the grassy foreground dotted with figures at leisure before an elaborate building with a pagoda, the double-series stem with two pairs of heavy opaque white spiral tapes around a central gauze column, over a conical foot, 14.4cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceSeton Veitch CollectionWith Delomosne and Son, 27 September 2006Bayreuth CollectionLiteratureDelomosne and Son, The Seton Veitch Collection (2006), no.37aFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Two engraved facet stem wine glasses, circa 1775-85One with an ogee bowl decorated with a chinoiserie landscape vignette depicting two buildings flanking an archway, flanked by trees, the base cut with flutes and trefoils, on a diamond-faceted stem and conical foot, 15.7cm high, the other with a round funnel bowl with a polished floral border to the rim, the base cut with scale-like facets, the stem with hexagonal facets, the conical foot with a band of circlets underneath and faceted at the footrim, 15.1cm high (2)Footnotes:ProvenanceHarrison Hughes Collection, Sotheby's, 24 June 1963, lot 33 (first mentioned)Jeffrey Rose Collection, Sotheby's, 6 March 1978, lot 89 (first mentioned)Parkington Collection, Christie's, 8 April 1998, lot 32 (second mentioned)Sotheby's, 15 December 1998, lot 63 (first mentioned)Bayreuth CollectionExhibitedVictoria and Albert Museum, 'Exhibition of English Glass', 1968, catalogue no.179 (first mentioned)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Giles gilded opaque twist ale glass, circa 1765The tall round funnel bowl gilt with crossed ears of barley in the London workshop of James Giles, the reverse with two mayflies in flight, with a gilt dentil rim, on a double-series stem with a pair of multi-ply spiral tapes encircled by a multi-ply spiral band, over a conical foot, 18.8cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceSotheby's, 14 April 1992, lot 130Christie's, 11 December 2000, lot 113Bayreuth CollectionA very similar ale glass, formerly in the Peter Meyer Collection, was sold by Bonhams on 21 June 2022, lot 124. It is highly unusual to find a gilt dentil rim on a Giles decorated glass such as this.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

An unusual facet stem wine glass, circa 1770The generous round funnel bowl cut with thumbnail facets, the hexagonal stem cut with two pairs of incised lines forming square and rectangular facets, alternating with two bands of ellipses, over a petal-cut conical foot, 16.5cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceParkington Collection, Christie's, 16 October 1997, lot 37Bayreuth CollectionFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

An engraved facet stem wine glass, circa 1775-80The ovoid bowl cut with thumbnail facets around the base, decorated with a continuous landscape scene depicting a windmill within a fenced enclosure and a two-storey house flanked by trees, the stem cut with diamond facets, over a conical foot, 13cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceParkington Collection, Christie's, 16 October 1997, lot 21Bayreuth CollectionA glass engraved with a very similar scene was sold by Christie's on 23 June 1992, lot 53.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Beilby enamelled opaque twist wine glass, circa 1765The ogee bowl painted with fruiting vine in opaque white, faint traces of gilding to the rim, set on a double-series stem containing a lace twist encircled by a pair of opaque white spiral tapes, over a conical foot, 14.2cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceChristie's, 18 May 1999, lot 320Bayreuth CollectionFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A baluster mead or champagne glass, early 18th centuryOf attractive small size, the distinctive cup shaped bowl moulded with a ring of sixteen evenly spaced basal flutes or gadroons, the stem with a teared mushroom knop above a short plain section terminating in a teared basal knop, over a folded conical foot, 12.2cm highFootnotes:ProvenancePhillips, 10 December 1997, lot 9Bayreuth CollectionVery similar glasses are illustrated by Delomosne and Son, The Baluster Family (1985), p.55, no.26c and by L M Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), p.59, no.37, the latter sold by Bonhams on 1 October 2003, lot 132. A virtually identical glass was from the Patrick and Mavis Walker Collection was sold by Bonhams on 1 December 2021, lot 63.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

An early heavy baluster goblet, circa 1700The generous conical bowl set on a wide inverted baluster stem enclosing a tear, over a folded conical foot, 21.2cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceSotheby's, 7 March 1977, lot 122Christie's, 11 December 2000, lot 61Bayreuth CollectionA similar glass is illustrated by L M Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), p.64, no.52. Compare also to the example with a round funnel bowl from the Durrington Collection, sold by Bonhams on 15 November 2023, lot 6.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Four airtwist wine glasses, circa 1750Three with multi-spiral airtwist stems and conical feet, comprising one with a bucket bowl on a stem with a central vermicular collar, 15.7cm high, two with pan-topped bowls, including one with a shoulder-knopped true baluster stem, 15.3cm high, the other on a double-knopped stem, 16.8cm high, the last with a tulip bowl on a double-series stem containing a pair of multi-ply spiral bands around a vertical cable, 16.5cm high (4)Footnotes:ProvenanceWith Arthur Churchill (tulip bowl)Cranch Collection, Phillips, 4 June 1997, lot 62 (bucket bowl)Bonhams, 18 September 2002, lots 11 and 18 (pan-topped glasses)Standish Collection, Christie's, 5 November 1998, lot 41 (tulip bowl)Bayreuth CollectionFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A good heavy baluster goblet, circa 1710The conical bowl solid at the base, on a stem with a wide angular knop containing a tear which extends into a basal ball knop, over a folded conical foot, 18.2cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceCranch Collection, Phillips, 4 June 1997, lot 2Bayreuth CollectionLiteratureL M Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), p.69, no.73ExhibitedWorthing Museum, 1968Salisbury Museum, 1985A very similar glass from the Patrick and Mavis Walker Collection was sold by Bonhams on 21 June 2022, lot 41 and another from the Durrington Collection on 15 November 2023, lot 9. Compare also to the glass illustrated by Delomosne and Son, The Baluster Family (1985), pp.20-1, no.8a.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A remarkable deceptive opaque twist ratafia glass, circa 1770,The tall thick-walled ogee bowl moulded with fine basal flutes, on a double-series stem containing a pair of heavy opaque white corkscrew threads within a pair of seven-ply spiral bands, over a thick conical foot, 18.5cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceLt-General Sir Otway Herbert Collection, Sotheby's, 6 November 1956, lot 5Walter F Smith Collection, Sotheby's, 18 March 1968, lot 504Harvey's Wine Museum, Bonhams, 1 October 2003, lot 210Bayreuth CollectionLiteratureSidney Crompton, English Glass (1968), pl.115No other ratafia glass with a deceptive bowl would appear to be recorded.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A fine baluster goblet, circa 1725The generous bucket bowl on a stem with a wide triple-annulated shoulder knop above a teared inverted baluster, terminating in a basal knop, over a folded conical foot, 20.8cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceChristie's, 23 June 1992, lot 112Seton Veitch CollectionWith Delomosne and Son, 27 September 2006Bayreuth CollectionLiteratureDelomosne and Son, The Seton Veitch Collection (2006), no.8cA similar glass is illustrated by W A Thorpe, A History of English and Irish Glass (1929), pl.LIII, no.2.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

An attractive light baluster wine glass, circa 1750The generous round funnel bowl on a slender multi-knopped stem with a small cushion knop above beaded and solid knops, on an inverted baluster terminating in a beaded basal knop, over a conical foot, 19.3cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceCranch Collection, Phillips, 4 June 1997, lot 87Bayreuth CollectionLiteratureL M Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), p.122, no.279ExhibitedWorthing Museum, 1968Salisbury Museum, 1985For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A very rare baluster wine glass, circa 1740-50The generous round funnel bowl finely wrythen-moulded, the tall plain stem with a central swelling knop, over a conical foot, 17cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceSotheby's, 15 December 1998, lot 202With Jeanette Hayhurst, 27 October 2000Bayreuth CollectionA similar glass is illustrated by E Barrington Haynes, Glass Through the Ages (1959), pl.68a.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A red colour twist wine glass, circa 1765The ogee bowl on a slender stem containing a well-formed opaque white corkscrew edged on both sides in translucent ruby-red, alternating with a pair of opaque white spiral tapes, over a conical foot, 15.5cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceHarvey's Wine Museum, Bonhams, 1 October 2003, lot 217Bayreuth CollectionA very similar glass but instead with a round funnel bowl was sold by Bonhams as part of the Leuba Collection on 13 December 2023, lot 129.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

An exceptional cylinder-knopped baluster wine glass, circa 1715-20The generous trumpet bowl with a solid base containing a small tear, on a cushion knop and broad collar, the stem with a wide cylinder knop containing a tear, terminating in a basal knop, over a folded domed foot, 17.7cm highFootnotes:ProvenancePhillips Bath, 17 May 1999, lot 116Bayreuth CollectionThe cylinder knop is among the rarest of baluster knops. A very similar glass is illustrated by Delomosne and Son, The Baluster Family (1985), pp.30-1, no.13b. Another from the Thomas Collection was sold by Bonhams on 4 June 2008, lot 15. See also that from the A C Hubbard Jr Collection illustrated by Ward Lloyd, A Wine Lover's Glasses (2000), pp.33-4, pls.22 and 23, sold by Bonhams on 20 November 2011, lot 18.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A very rare bobbin-knopped mead or champagne glass, early 18th centuryThe distinctive cup shaped bowl moulded with a ring of sixteen evenly spaced basal flutes or gadroons, on a hollow multi-knopped stem formed of four equally sized knops, over a folded conical foot, 15.1cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceHenry Fox Collection, Bonhams, 8 December 2004, lot 23Bayreuth CollectionExhibitedGlass Circle Diamond Jubilee Exhibition 1937-1997, catalogue no.89These are popularly known as mead glasses, but mead was rarely drunk in Britain and it is more likely they were inspired by Continental roemers used for Rhenish wine, see Dwight Lanmon, The Golden Age of English Glass (2011), p.93. The bobbin-knopped stem is a particularly rare feature. A similar bobbin-knopped glass is illustrated by L M Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), p.118, no.264 and was sold by Bonhams on 15 December 2010, lot 15.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A good baluster wine or cordial glass, circa 1725-30The flared trumpet bowl with a deep solid base enclosing a tiny air bead, on a collar above a half-knop, the stem with a solid true baluster between cushion knops, over a conical foot, 16.9cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceSotheby's, 18 December 1997, lot 75Bayreuth CollectionLiteratureL M Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), p.85, no.133For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A very rare pair of Giles gilded green glass decanters and stoppers, circa 1765-70Decorated in the London workshop of James Giles, each of shouldered form in deep emerald-green glass, cut all over with diamond facets and extending flutes to the shoulders, richly gilt with a 'mosaic' pattern, the faceted spire stoppers similarly gilt, 30.5cm high (4)Footnotes:ProvenanceChristie's, 15 June 2000, lot 59Bayreuth CollectionLiteratureAndy McConnell, The Decanter: Ancient to Modern (2018), p.117, no.15In 1774 Christie's held an auction of part of the stock of Giles, including two pairs of decanters and stoppers with descriptions which match the present lot. Lot 29 on 21 March 1774 was 'two cut decanters (enamel'd) mosaick work very rich...', and lot 37 on 22 March 1774 was 'two glass decanters cut enamel'd mosaic very rich...'. Several cut glass wares from the atelier of James Giles gilded in a 'mosaic' pattern are known. A pair of green cruet bottles and a cream basin are illustrated by Gerald Coke, In Search of James Giles 1718-1780 (1983), p.243, pl.71. The cream basin is also illustrated by Stephen Hanscombe, James Giles China and Glass Painter (2005), no.128, together with a pair of blue cruet bottles and three scent bottles. A decanter of similar form in blue glass is illustrated by Andy McConnell (2018, p.117, no.13 together with an example of 'sugarloaf' form in opaque white glass, no.14, which was sold by Bonhams on 1 May 2013, lot 57. See also the opaque white glass cruet bottle, no.16.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Two engraved airtwist ale glasses, circa 1750The first with a generous pan-topped bowl finely decorated with a border of hops and barley to the rim, the other with a pan-topped bowl with two pairs of crossed barley ears, a formal floral and foliate border to the rim, on multi-spiral airtwist stems with central swelling knops, over conical feet, 17.9cm and 18.2cm high (2)Footnotes:ProvenancePhillips, 10 December 1997, lot 34 (first mentioned)With Delomosne and Son, 12 June 1998 (second mentioned)Bayreuth CollectionFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A good heavy baluster goblet, circa 1715-20The generous round funnel bowl with a solid base, above a wide teared inverted baluster and teared basal knop, over a folded conical foot, 19.5cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceBayreuth CollectionA very similar goblet was sold by Bonhams on 20 June 2023, lot 63.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

An early ale flute and a rare opaque twist ratafia glass, mid-18th centuryThe ale with a trumpet bowl with fine wrythen moulding, on a plain stem and folded conical foot, 19.3cm high, the ratafia with a very slender tall conical bowl moulded with fine flutes, on a double-series stem containing a pair of opaque white spiral tapes around a multi-ply corkscrew, over a folded conical foot, 19cm high (2)Footnotes:ProvenancePeter Lazarus Collection (ale)Sotheby's, 18 December 1997, lot 142 (ratafia)Henry Fox Collection, Bonhams, 2 June 2004, lot 7 (ale)Bayreuth CollectionA very similar ale glass is illustrated by E Barrington Haynes, Glass Through the Ages (1959), pl.78d. It is very rare to find a folded foot on an opaque twist ratafia glass.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Three attractive plain stem wine glasses, circa 1750One with a bell bowl with graduated honeycomb moulding to the lower part, on a tall plain stem and conical foot, 19cm high, one with a generous round funnel bowl moulded with ten broad basal flutes, on a plain stem and conical foot, 16.8cm high, and one with a small panel-moulded bell bowl on a plain stem and a similarly panel-moulded domed foot, 15.2cm high (3)Footnotes:ProvenanceCranch Collection, Phillips, 4 June 1997, lots 23 and 29 (bell bowl glasses)Bonhams, 14 June 2000, lot 86 (shortest)Bayreuth CollectionExhibitedWorthing Museum, 1968 (tallest)An identical glass to the honeycomb-moulded example, perhaps the same glass, is illustrated by L M Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), p.144, no.364.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A rare moulded stem wine or cordial glass and a facet stem cordial glass, third quarter 18th centuryThe first with a round funnel bowl with fine wrythen moulding to the lower part, on a tall eight-sided pedestal stem with basal collars, over a folded conical foot, 17.2cm high, the other with a small ogee bowl cut with facets to the base, on a tall diamond-cut stem and conical foot, 17.5cm high (2)Footnotes:ProvenanceParkington Collection, Christie's, 16 October 1997, lot 13 (facet stem)W H D Riley-Smith Collection, Sotheby's, 14 July 1982, lot 269 (moulded stem)Henry Fox Collection, Bonhams, 2 June 2004, lot 5 (moulded stem)Bayreuth CollectionLiteratureL M Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), p.134, no.324 (moulded stem)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A fine engraved facet stem wine glass of Jacobite interest, circa 1765-70The lipped ogee bowl neatly decorated with a band of flowers below the rim including honeysuckle and a daisy, cut with thumbnail facets and trefoil motifs to the base, the six-sided stem with notches to the alternate angles, the conical foot engraved with a closed rose bud and two leaf sprigs underneath, 15.6cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceParkington Collection, Christie's, 16 October 1997, lot 18Bayreuth CollectionAin identical glass is illustrated by Delomosne and Son, English Wineglasses with Faceted Stems (2005), no.6d.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A good baluster wine glass, circa 1720The generous flared trumpet bowl with a deep solid base enclosing a tear, supported by a collar above a double-annulated knop, the stem with a wide solid true baluster between shoulder and basal knops, over a conical folded foot, 18.7cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceDavid Davis Collection, Sotheby's, 2 May 1928, lot 167Walter F Smith Collection, Sotheby's, 18 March 1968, lot 318Harvey's Wine Museum, Bonhams, 1 October 2003, lot 113Bayreuth CollectionLiteratureL M Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), p.86, no.135A smaller glass of very similar form from the Patrick and Mavis Walker Collection was sold by Bonhams on 21 June 2022, lot 47.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A collection of seven jelly and syllabub glasses, 18th centuryIn a variety of different forms, comprising one with a pan-topped bowl engraved with a border of flowers and fruiting vine to the rim, three winged insects in flight to the bowl, on a beaded knop and domed foot, one with double 'B' handles, one with a thistle bowl applied with double handles, a hexagonal example, one moulded with fine flutes and applied with a single loop handle, one applied with double handles set on a beaded knop and folded domed foot, the last with a panel-moulded pan-topped bowl applied with a single loop handle, on a beaded knop and panel-moulded domed foot, shortest 9.3cm high, tallest 12cm high (7)Footnotes:ProvenanceCranch Collection, Phillips, 4 June 1997, lots 118 and 120 (second and last mentioned)Parkington Collection, Christies, 8 April 1998, lot 16 (first mentioned)Phillips, 13 June 2000, lots 64 and 66 (third and fourth mentioned)Bonhams, 7 June 2006, lot 23 (part) (fifth and sixth mentioned)Bayreuth CollectionExhibitedVictoria and Albert Museum, 'Exhibition of English Glass', 1968, no.228 (last mentioned)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A rare facet stem wine glass, circa 1770-75The ogee bowl cut with basal flutes and trefoil motifs, the stem unusually cut with alternate bands of vertical flutes and diamond facets, the conical foot with petal-like facets, 14.3cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceParkington Collection, Christie's, 16 October 1997, lot 14Bayreuth CollectionFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

An exceptionally rare South Staffordshire enamelled opaque white glass guglet, circa 1755-60Of simple pear-shaped bottle form with a bulbous knop below the flared rim, finely enamelled in a famille rose palette with two long-tailed 'fancy' birds perched on the meandering branches of a flowering prunus tree, flanked by leafy stems of bamboo, 26.4cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceMiss Millie Manheim and D M & P Manheim Antiques Corporation, Sotheby's New York, 15 October 1996, lot 267With Delomosne and Son, June 2002Christie's, 14 May 2003, lot 282Bayreuth CollectionLiteratureAndy McConnell, The Decanter: Ancient to Modern (2018), p.102, no.2The introduction of arsenic as an opacifier in lead glass in Britain in the mid-18th century led to the production of opaque white glass of far superior quality and whiteness than that produced using a traditional tin oxide opacifier, particularly on the Continent. This remarkable guglet is among the largest pieces of opaque white glass made in this tradition and truly exemplifies this technical achievement. The various artists responsible for enamelling glass such as this were undoubtedly connected with enamelling on Staffordshire saltglaze stoneware and on Worcester porcelain, as discussed by R J Charleston in Delomosne and Sons exhibition catalogue, Gilding the Lily (1978), p.8. No other guglet of this particular form would appear to be recorded, but an example of different form was exhibited by Delomosne and Son, Gilding the Lily (1978), p.17, no.23.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Two baluster sweetmeat or champagne glasses, circa 1730-40One with a tall double-ogee bowl on a double-collar, the stem with a wide triple-annulated knop above a short plain section and basal knop, over a folded domed foot, 14.7cm high, the other with a shallow ovoid bowl on a cushion knop, the stem with a beaded knop above a short plain section and basal knop, over a folded domed foot, 12.4cm high (2)Footnotes:ProvenanceHenry Fox Collection, Bonhams, 2 June 2004, lot 2 (tallest)Bayreuth CollectionFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A very rare blue colour twist ale glass, circa 1765The tall round funnel bowl on a stem enclosing a white spiral ribbon edged on both sides in cobalt-blue, alternating with an opaque white spiral gauze, over a conical foot, 19.3cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceSotheby's, 20 July 1961, lot 19Walter F Smith Collection, Sotheby's, 24 June 1968, lot 809Harvey's Wine Museum, Bonhams, 1 October 2003, lot 225Bayreuth CollectionA blue colour twist ale glass from the Julius and Ann Kaplan Collection was sold by Bonhams on 15 November 2017, lot 56.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Three airtwist cordial glasses, circa 1750Two with bucket bowls solid at the bases, including one on a double-knopped multi-spiral airtwist stem and conical foot, 17.9cm high, and one with a double-series stem containing a spiral cable within a four-ply spiral band, over a domed foot, 16cm high, the last with a round funnel bowl solid at the base, on a double-series stem containing a pair of spiral threads within a pair of five-ply spiral bands, over a conical foot, 17.9cm high (3)Footnotes:ProvenanceCranch Collection, Phillips, 4 June 1997, lot 83 (second mentioned)Parkington Collection, Christie's, 16 October 1997, lot 8 (first mentioned)Parkington Collection, Christie's, 8 April 1998, lot 6 (third mentioned)Bayreuth CollectionLiteratureL M Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), p.182, no.516 (second mentioned)ExhibitedWorthing Museum, 1968, no.221 (second mentioned)Salisbury Museum, 1985 (second mentioned)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A red and green colour twist wine glass, circa 1765The ogee bowl on a stem containing an opaque white corkscrew edged in translucent emerald-green on the outside and translucent ruby-red on the inside, the coloured ribbon alternating with an opaque white spiral gauze, over a conical foot, 14.8cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceE Cecil Kny Collection, Sotheby's, 16 April, 1948, lot 67Walter F Smith Collection, Sotheby's, 18 March 1968, lot 514Harvey's Wine Museum, Bonhams, 1 October 2003, lot 220Bayreuth CollectionLiteratureGrant Francis, Old English Drinking Glasses (1926), pl.XXI, no.144For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Three good facet stem wine glasses, circa 1775-85One with a generous ovoid bowl cut with scale-like facets to the base, the stem with hexagonal facets over a conical foot with petal-like facets, 16cm high, the other two with pan-topped bowls, one on a tall stem with diamond facets over a conical foot, 15.9cm high, the other on a stem with hexagonal facets over a solid firing foot, 14.6cm high (3)Footnotes:ProvenanceParkington Collection, Christie's, 16 October 1997, lots 23 and 28 (hexagonally faceted glasses)Parkington Collection, Christie's, 8 April 1998, lot 29 (diamond faceted glass)Bayreuth CollectionFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Three good moulded stem sweetmeat glasses, circa 1740-50With lipped double-ogee bowls set on eight-sided teared pedestal stems applied with diamonds on the shoulders and set between collars, one with a panel-moulded bowl with a dentated rim and a similarly moulded domed foot, 16.8cm high, one with a rib-moulded bowl and a similarly moulded folded domed foot, 16.8cm high, the last with a plain bowl and a folded domed foot, 16.3cm high (3)Footnotes:ProvenanceCranch Collection, Phillips, 4 June 1997, lot 39 (last mentioned)Phillips, 10 December 1997, lot 2 (second mentioned)Bonhams, 21 November 2001, lot 134 (first mentioned)Bayreuth CollectionLiteratureL M Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), p.130, no.310 (last mentioned)ExhibitedWorthing Museum, 1968 (last mentioned)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A good baluster wine or cordial glass, circa 1730The flared trumpet bowl with a deep solid base enclosing a tear, on a collar above a double-annulated knop, the stem with a slender teared true baluster terminating in a basal knop, over a folded conical foot, 16.5cm highFootnotes:ProvenancePhillips, 10 December 1997, lot 16Bayreuth CollectionSimilar glasses are illustrated by L M Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), p.86, nos.135 and 137. See also that from the Stephen Pohlmann Collection sold by Bonhams on 30 November 2022, lot 10.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A very rare 'Lynn' ale glass, circa 1765The tall round funnel bowl moulded with two concentric rings, the double-series stem with a spiral gauze encircled by a pair of heavy opaque white spiral tapes, over a folded conical foot, 20.2cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceBayreuth Collection'Lynn' ale glasses are exceptionally rare. A similar example is illustrated by Delomosne and Son, Lynn Glass? (1995), p.14, no.7. Another from the Hamilton Clements Collection was exhibited exhibited in The Glass Circle Diamond Jubilee Exhibition 1937-1997, catalogue no.129. The folded foot is a relatively common feature on single-series opaque twist 'Lynn' glasses, but rarely seen on those with double-series stems, making the present lot particularly unusual.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A good Giles gilded opaque twist goblet, circa 1765Decorated in the London workshop of James Giles, the generous ogee bowl decorated with a meandering branch of fruiting vine below a gilt rim, the double-series stem with a pair of heavy opaque white multi-ply tapes encircling a further pair of heavy multi-ply tapes, over a conical foot, 18.6cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceHoneybourne Museum, Royal Brierley Collection, Sotheby's, 3 March 1998, lot 68 (part)Seton Veitch CollectionWith Delomosne and Son, 27 September 2006Bayreuth CollectionLiteratureDelomosne and Son, The Seton Veitch Collection (2006), no.45dA glass from the same original set was sold by Bonhams as part of the Leuba Collection on 13 December 2023, lot 166. A very similar glass is illustrated by Derek C Davis and Keith Middlemas, Coloured Glass (1968), p.64 and another by E Barrington Haynes, Glass Through the Ages (1959), pl.45d.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Two good mixed twist wine glasses, circa 1765One with a waisted bucket bowl and the other with a round funnel bowl, the stems both containing an air spiral cable within a heavy opaque-white spiral thread, over conical feet, 16.7cm and 15.2cm high (2)Footnotes:ProvenanceStandish Collection, Christie's, 5 November 1998, lot 196 (shorter)Bayreuth CollectionFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A very rare deceptive drop-knopped heavy baluster dram or toastmaster's glass, circa 1710The tall thick-walled conical bowl set on a drop knop containing a tear, above a short plain section, over a folded domed foot, 11.4cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceHenry Fox Collection, Bonhams, 2 June 2004, lot 13Bayreuth CollectionLiteratureR Wilkinson, The Hallmarks of Antique Glass (1968), p.71, fig.53Deceptive heavy baluster dram glasses from this period are more typically seem with inverted baluster or globular knops. The incorporation of a scarce drop-knop would appear to be without parallel.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A glass punch ladle, a wine funnel and a salt, 18th centuryThe ladle with a grooved handle turned over at the tip, the deed cup-shaped bowl slightly everted at the rim, 20.2cm long, the funnel with a broad ogee bowl and slightly tapering stem curled at the tip, 11.2cm long, the salt of hollow globular form with a deep well, on a small circular foot, 6.4cm high (3)Footnotes:ProvenancePhillips, 12 September 2001, lot 3 (ladle)Bonhams, 10 June 2003, lot 21 (funnel)Bonhams, 7 June 2006, lot 23 (part) (salt)Bayreuth CollectionFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A red colour twist wine glass, circa 1765The ogee bowl on a stem containing a central translucent ruby-red corkscrew edged by a pair of opaque white multi-ply corkscrew tapes, all within a pair of five-ply spiral bands, over a conical foot, 14cm highFootnotes:ProvenancePhillips, 8 March 2000, lot 21Bayreuth CollectionFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A fine and rare pair of South Staffordshire enamelled opaque white glass tea bottles and enamel covers, circa 1755-60By the 'swirled flowers' painter, of shouldered rectangular form with canted corners, painted to the front with a landscape vignette depicting a goldfinch perched on a leafy branch below a purple scrollwork cartouche, respectively inscribed 'BOHEA' and 'GREEN' in black enamel, the reverses with a colourful bouquet of flowers including roses, the sides of both with sprays of flowers in pink and blue respectively, all surrounded by scattered sprigs, the enamel covers both painted with a gallant playing a flute before a seated lady, with engine-turned gilt-metal mounts, 14.2cm high (4)Footnotes:ProvenanceGeorge Lockett CollectionSir Hugh Dawson CollectionWith Delomosne and Son, February 1983Christie's, 14 May 2003, lot 278Bayreuth CollectionLiteratureR J Charleston, English Glass (1984), pl.45bAndy McConnell, The Decanter: Ancient to Modern (2018), p.102, no.1ExhibitedDelomosne and Son, Gilding the Lily, 1978, no.4These tea bottles or canisters belong to a group of opaque white glass enamelled with distinctive floral decoration characterised by a series of turbulent curves and flicks, termed 'swirled flowers' by W A Thorpe. This includes a series of tea bottles of this type, painted with a goldfinch or bullfinch beneath the name of the tea in a scrolled cartouche. This style of painting on opaque white glass was once attributed to Bristol, primarily on the basis of family traditions relating to the painter Michael Edkins. However, a number of features point instead to a South Staffordshire origin, including the enamel fittings associated with many of these pieces, such as the caps on the present lot. This is discussed in detail by R J Charleston in Delomosne and Sons exhibition catalogue, Gilding the Lily (1978), p.7. It is possible that this distinctive group of enamelled glass may have been made in the Birmingham workshop of the 'toymaker' John Wood, who is known to have collaborated with the Aston glassmaker Holte Bridgeman.Another pair of opaque white glass tea bottles for 'GREEN' and 'BOHEA' was sold by Christie's on 24 November 1987, lot 76. A comparable tea bottle for 'GREEN', enamelled instead with a bullfinch, is in the Victoria and Albert Museum together with a similar example for 'BOHEA' (inv. nos.5288&A-1901 and 414:1380-1885). A single tea bottle for 'BOHEA' painted with a bullfinch was also in the James Hall Collection, sold by Bonhams on 17 December 2008, lot 108.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com