Based In Suffolk, Jeff Sims antiques specializes in quality Silver, Glass and decorative items, with an emphasis on usable tableware and objets de vertu. With over 40 years experience in the antiques business, customer satisfaction is a priority and great care is taken in the description and authenticity of each item offered.
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Victorian Harlequin Set of 6 Small Champagne Coupes
Six delightful small glass champagne bowls, assembled to form a 'harlequin' set. Harlequin sets are individual examples placed together to celebrate a combination of their similarities and differences. This fine set are English and all date from the late-Victorian era. Usefully doubling as cocktail glasses, the details are as follows :-
1. Cut band of thumbnail cuts above a band of oval cuts. Polished pontil to foot.
2. Etched zigzag and Greek Key pattern. Plain stem and foot.
3. Thumbnail cutting to bowl. Collar to foot. Slice cut baluster stem.
4. Facet prism cuts to the bowl. Plain stem and polished pontil to foot.
5. Band of star etching above a small band of thumbnail cutting to bowl. Plain stem with supporting collar beneath bowl.
6. Band of large thumbnail cutting to bowl. Slice cut baluster stem, extending into bowl for petal effect. Collar to base of stem.
measurements
Average Height 11.7cm
Average bowl diameter 8cm - 8.5cm
measurements
declaration
Jeff Sims Antiques has clarified that the Victorian Harlequin Set of 6 Small Champagne Coupes (LA461510) is genuinely of the period declared with the date/period of manufacture being c.1880