The drawn trumpet bowl raised on a tapering stem with a basal inverted teared baluster
above a conical folded foot with snapped pontil

Glasses of this type - with plain stem and central or lower baluster -
are often referred to as 'Kit-Cat' glasses.

This 'Kit-Cat' debated reference is to glasses depicted in fellow member Sir Godfrey Kneller's c1721

painting of two members of the Kit-Cat Club (see painting below),
a London dining society which began meeting during the 1690s at a tavern in Gray's Inn Lane
owned by Christopher Cat, a Norfolk pastry cook famous for his 'oven trumpery'.
Cat purportedly gave his name to the mutton pies known as "Kit Cats",
from which the name of the club is possibly derived.
Between 1700 and 1720, Kneller painted each of the 42 members,
these portraits now hanging in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Sir Godfrey Kneller, c1721, portrait of Kit Cat members (National Gallery, London),

"Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne; Henry Clinton, 7th Earl of Lincoln"

Condition : excellent condition with appropriate wear,

including some interior scrathes at the base and several footrim internal bubbles

6 5/8" High / 3 1/8" Diameter, The Foot / 3" Diameter, The Rim / 5.2 oz

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#8022

Showing collector's number, and folded foot bubble (left); and small scratch to bowl interior )right)

Below, showing bowl and stem detail, with nice swirl to the glass in making,

and small scratches to the bowl interior at bottom

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George II Tall Baluster 'Kit-Cat' Type Wine Glass, England, c1730 

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