True blue glass helps keep end up for English pieces
English glass doesn’t generally compete with Continental for price, so anyone just looking at the top results from Sotheby’s mixed-owner auction held the day before their Japanese museum dispersal might have got the erroneous impression that home-produced material had played a low-key role.
Fortunately there was a very rare English two-colour wine glass of c.1765 at the top of the list to …