547 - Rare wine glass

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