A rare engraved airtwist ratafia flute and an ale glass, circa 1750The ratafia of tall slender funnel shape, a pair of barley ears below the rim and a sprig to the reverse, the lower part with honeycomb moulding issuing from fine basal wrythen twists, on a stem containing a pair of mercurial corkscrew threads, 20.3cm high, the ale with a tall ogee bowl engraved with hops and crossed ears of barley, the double-series stem with two pairs of spiral threads around a central airtwist gauze column, 20.9cm high (2)FootnotesProvenance With Jeanette Hayhurst, 1 October 2000 (ale) Standish Collection (ratafia) Seton Veitch Collection (ratafia) With Delomosne and Son, 27 September 2006 (ratafia) Patrick and Mavis Walker Collection Literature Delomosne and Son, The Seton Veitch Collection (2006), no.34a (ratafia)
A rare engraved airtwist ratafia flute and an ale glass, circa 1750The ratafia of tall slender funnel shape, a pair of barley ears below the rim and a sprig to the reverse, the lower part with honeycomb moulding issuing from fine basal wrythen twists, on a stem containing a pair of mercurial corkscrew threads, 20.3cm high, the ale with a tall ogee bowl engraved with hops and crossed ears of barley, the double-series stem with two pairs of spiral threads around a central airtwist gauze column, 20.9cm high (2)FootnotesProvenance With Jeanette Hayhurst, 1 October 2000 (ale) Standish Collection (ratafia) Seton Veitch Collection (ratafia) With Delomosne and Son, 27 September 2006 (ratafia) Patrick and Mavis Walker Collection Literature Delomosne and Son, The Seton Veitch Collection (2006), no.34a (ratafia)
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