An early heavy baluster wine glass, circa 1700

An early heavy baluster wine glass, circa 1700 The truncated conical bowl with a solid base, resting on a wide drop knop enclosing a central tear, over a short plain section and heavy conical foot, 14.8cm high Footnotes: Provenance Vergette Collection, Sotheby's, 26 March 1966, lot 141 Cranch Collection, Christie's, 17 November 1992, lot 142 Bonhams, 3 June 2009, lot 8 Stephen Pohlmann Collection Literature Stephen Pohlmann, 'An Eclectic Collector', Glass Matters, no.14 (June 2022), p.23, fig.7 The simple and elegant form of this glass suggests a particularly early date. A drop-knopped glass of similarly early date, formerly in Harveys Wine Museum, is illustrated by L M Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), p.73, no.86 and was sold by Bonhams on 1 October 2003, lot 125. This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: * * VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com