A most unusual baluster sweetmeat glass, circa 1730


With an oval or elliptical-shaped pan-topped bowl, finely-engraved with a border of floral sprays hung from shell motifs and delicate scrolls, the baluster stem with an acorn knop between a shoulder and a basal knop, on a domed foot, 16.6cm high
|This rare glass is illustrated by L.M. Bickerton, 18th Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), p.97, pl.179, although no mention is made of the curious shape of the bowl