1926/21
Glassware Collection - Worcestershire Museum of Freemasonry
An elegant opaque twist Ale Glass
WMLMT Classification:- Goblet/Glass
Description
"Date: C 1890.
Origin: English, likely Stourbridge.
Style: An elegant tall ale glass with a fine elongated trumpet shaped bowl with everted lip. Engraved with hop leaves and trailing hops and two ears of barley in between there are finely engraved square and compasses and on the other side a moon with face surrounded by seven stars. The bowl is 5.7cm in diameter.
Stem: A long stem with a single opaque cable twist outside of an opaque gauze cable.
Foot: Spread foot 6.1 cm in diameter.
Pontil: Somewhat unusually for a piece of this quality the pontil mark has been ground out but not polished."
Properties
"Height: 18.7cm.
Weight: 112 grams.
Condition: Excellent. There is minor wear to the foot commensurate with age. No damage and no repairs."
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