CIRCA 1760

Details

An 'Anti-Gallican' cut and engraved goblet and cover
CIRCA 1760
The cover with a faceted finial and engraved with a continuous garland of roses, buds, a carnation, a bell-flower and foliage, the cup-shaped bowl engraved with a waisted escutcheon with St. George on horseback spearing the arms of France flanked by a lion supporter for Britain and a double-headed eagle for Austria, surmounted by a crest depicting Britannia flanked by flags, all above a banner with the motto FOR OUR COUNTRY, upheld on a faceted stem, the foot with similar engraving to the cover
13½ in. (34.5 cm.) high (2)

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Lot Essay

Cf. L.M. Bickerton, An Illustrated Guide to Eighteenth-Century Drinking Glasses (1971), p.297, nos. 952 and 953 (detail). See also London 1753, British Museum exhibition catalogue, London 2003, p. 117, nos. 2.21 and 2.22, which illustrate badges of the Anti-Gallican Society, and states: 'The Anti-Gallican Society was founded in 1745 'to oppose the insidious arts of the French nation' and continued to be active for fifty years. It met at Lebeck's Head in the Strand, and there were branches throughout the country'. See also Rococo; Art and Design in Hogarth's England, Victoria and Albert Museum catalogue, London 1984, pp. 24, 176 and 203, where various artistic commissions for Lord Blakeney, Grand President of the Anti-Gallican Association, are discussed.

Our thanks to F.Peter Lole Esq. for his assistance in compiling this catalogue entry.

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