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Glass object

See large image drinking glass; wine glass Accession number: A5335 Production date: 1760-80 Material: glass Measurements: H 147 mm; DM (rim) 49 mm; DM (foot) 67 mm Museum Section: Social History Summary: Wine glass, incomplete: ogee bowl, on stem with pair of 5-ply opaque white spiral bands outside opaque white lace twist; on blown conical foot. Bowl and foot stained brown; stem clear (effectively toughened through reheating). Approximately half the bowl missing. An exact match with A26286 (A5345). For the thread pattern compare Bickerton 1986, 359, especially fig 1.201 (4-ply spiral bands). Location: Object stored at Mortimer Wheeler House (Ceramics and Glass store)

Mortimer Wheeler House, 46 Eagle Wharf Road, London N1 7ED Tel: +44 (0)20 7490 8447 E-mail: ceramics@museumoflondon.org.uk

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