Beschreibung:

Five airtwist wine glasses, circa 1750Three with round funnel bowls, including one with a stem containing a multi-ply gauze corkscrew, one with a stem containing a pair of mercurial corkscrew threads, and one with a shoulder-knopped multi-spiral stem, another with a drawn trumpet bowl on a multi-spiral stem, the last with an ogee bowl on a double-series stem with three mercurial threads outside of an air column, all on conical feet, shortest 12.7cm high, tallest 15.4cm high (5)FootnotesProvenance With Alan Milford, 29 January 1977 (gauze corkscrew) Christie's, 9 October 1979, lot 86 (round funnel mercurial) With Leslie Antiques, New York, 22 August 2015 (ogee mercurial) Stephen Pohlmann Collection