A very rare sealed wine glass c.1760, the rounded funnel bowl applied to two sides with an indistinct armorial seal, raised on a double series opaque twist stem above a folded conical foot, 17.5cm. Illustrated: Albert Hartshorne, Old English Glasses, p.278-9, and in L M Bickerton, 18th Century English Drinking Glasses, p.216, fig.644. Hartshorne suggests that the seals depict a shield incorporating the arms 'a fesse between three garbs in an arabesque border'. Provenance: from a private collection in London.