Two engraved armorial wine glasses, mid-18th centuryOne with a generous bucket bowl with the arms of the Gidley family of Devon flanked by scrollwork, on a plain stem and conical foot, 16.7cm high, the other probably Nostetangen, the bell bowl with a coat of arms beneath a Swedish or perhaps Belgian baron's coronet, on a beaded inverted baluster stem and conical foot, 17.6cm high (2)FootnotesProvenance Chris Crabtree Collection A Robert Gidley (1723-1811) of Honiton married Sarah Miles (1719-1777) in 1745, and this glass may have been made to celebrate the marriage.
Two engraved armorial wine glasses, mid-18th centuryOne with a generous bucket bowl with the arms of the Gidley family of Devon flanked by scrollwork, on a plain stem and conical foot, 16.7cm high, the other probably Nostetangen, the bell bowl with a coat of arms beneath a Swedish or perhaps Belgian baron's coronet, on a beaded inverted baluster stem and conical foot, 17.6cm high (2)FootnotesProvenance Chris Crabtree Collection A Robert Gidley (1723-1811) of Honiton married Sarah Miles (1719-1777) in 1745, and this glass may have been made to celebrate the marriage.
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