A collection of six early short or dwarf ale glasses, first half 18th century


With wrythen moulding stopping below the rims and terminating in flamiform fringes, on rudimentary spiral stems with various simple knops, four of the glasses set on folded feet, the other two with plain conical feet, 11.4cm - 13.4cm high (6)
|ProvenanceRobert Manners CollectionTwo very similar glasses are illustrated by L M Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking glasses (1986 edition), pp.250-1, figs.776 and 781. See also Robert Charleston, English Glass and the Glass used in England (1984) p.27b.