547 - Rare wine glass

Rare wine glass Rare Wilhelm Fritsche wine glass for Thomas Webb & Sons, Dennis Glass Works, Stourbridge (shrouded), late 19th century Colourless glass. Slightly rising disc base with rim turned downwards. Richly articulated slender baluster shaft, partly with pierced air bubble. Very neatly executed, partly polished low-cut decoration on the base, stem and bell-shaped cuppa: laurel branches, rosettes and leaf tendrils in circumferential motif repetition. H. ca. 23.1 cm MUNDT, Barbara, Historicism. Catalogue of the Kunstgewerbemuseum SMPK, Berlin 1973, no. 18 and appendix