AN OPAQUE-TWIST 'KING OF PRUSSIA' COMMEMORATIVE PORTRAIT GOBLET, the ogee bowl engraved with a bust portrait within a circular scroll and hatched cartouche, the reverse with the Imperial double-headed eagle within a circular cartouche flanked by stylised flowering foliage and scrolls and inscribed above SUCCESS TO THE KING OF PRUSSIA, the stem with two entwined opaque threads within a seven-ply spiral, on a conical foot, circa 1763

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AN OPAQUE-TWIST 'KING OF PRUSSIA' COMMEMORATIVE PORTRAIT GOBLET, the ogee bowl engraved with a bust portrait within a circular scroll and hatched cartouche, the reverse with the Imperial double-headed eagle within a circular cartouche flanked by stylised flowering foliage and scrolls and inscribed above SUCCESS TO THE KING OF PRUSSIA, the stem with two entwined opaque threads within a seven-ply spiral, on a conical foot, circa 1763
19.5cm. high

Provenance

Arthur Churchill

Literature

Arthur Churchill Ltd., 'A Coronation Exhibition of Royal, Historical, Political and Social Glasses.....', Catalogue, 1937, pl. 23, no. 104

Lot Essay

The glass commemorates the alliance between England and Prussia during the Seven Years War (1756-63)

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