Glassware

It is with great sadness that I have to report the death of Martin Mortimer on October 1 following a challenging short illness. He passed away peacefully at home aged 94.

UK auctioneer hails successful sale offering attractive investments to buyers worldwide

Glassware with provenance to Augustus of Saxony takes five-figure sum

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.

We are sad to announce the sudden death of Shane Theophilus (August 23, 1954-October 22, 2022).

From the late Middle Ages onwards, an unusual form of glass bottle appeared in many parts of continental Europe.

Drinking vessel generates remarkable result.

Woody Auctions in Kansas is selling the collection of Van and Karen Turner from Oklahoma on September 24.

The series of novelty ‘book’ hip flasks made by James Dixon & Co of Sheffield c.1900-10 are always popular collectables.

The sale of Scottish Works of Art & Whisky at Lyon & Turnbull in Edinburgh on August 17 included this remarkable mid-18th century Jacobite goblet.

TimeLine Auctions’ Antiquities sale includes a dozen good examples of Roman glass including this 3rd-5th century unguentarium with zigzag trail decoration.

During the administration of Rutherford Hayes, who served as the 19th President of the US from 1877-81, the White House commissioned a dinner service from the Haviland factory in Limoges.

This glass tumbler, pictured below, engraved with a crowned 'N' over a band of diamond cutting, contained in a tooled leather cylindrical travelling case, is of a type that accompanied Napoleon on campaign.

The firing glass featured in Auction Reports, ATG No 2553, that is inscribed 'IM 1779' was in all probability used by the Installed Master for that year.

Among the very rarest bottles to appear for sale in recent months was a miniature shaft and globe in dark aqua glass, c.1650, sold in South Yorkshire.

A collection of glassware by the Moser company is to be offered by Neue Auctions in Ohio on July 30.

Sealed wine bottles possess a powerful sense of time and place. For some collectors it is the regional connections that appeal most.

For reasons of both supply and economics not every collector of English 18th century drinking glasses gets to own a piece from the great Beilby enamelling workshop that operated at Amen Corner in Newcastle in the 1760s-70s.