Pair of High Quality Cut Lead Crystal Hock Wine Glasses with Fern and Fan Motif

This is a pair of high-quality lead crystal hock wine glasses, maker unknown but probably dating to the mid-20th century.

The bowl has a complex design consisting of a continuous band of cross cuts below the rim, the upper limbs of which contain a five-pointed fan. The diamond-shaped panel between adjacent crosses contains a small olive cut. Below each of these panels is a vertical wedge cut; large wedge cuts alternate with smaller wedge cuts. The smaller wedge cuts form the top of a cut fern, which extends down to the base of the bowl. The base of these eight ferns sits on two concentric circles that encircle the top of the stem.

The stem has a short tapering section, which leads to an elongated baluster. The upper part of this is cut with three ferns alternating with three vertical wedge cuts. There is a discoid collar at the junction of the stem and the foot. The latter has four leaf-shaped wedge cuts at ninety degrees to each other. The area between adjacent leaf cuts contains a five-pointed fan. They are unmarked.

Each glass has a height of approximately 19.4cm, with a diameter across the rim of about 7.6cm and across the foot of about 6.6cm on one glass and 7.0cm on the other. There are minor discrepancies in the dimensions and cutting sizes due to the handmade nature of the glasses.

Each glass has a liquid capacity (to the brim) of 180ml.

They have an unwrapped weight of 380g.

They are in excellent condition, with no chips or cracks, although as previously mentioned there are some minor differences between the two glasses due to their handmade nature.