A WILLIAMITE PORTRAIT OPAQUE-TWIST WINE-GLASS, the funnel bowl engraved with a portrait of William III in profile to the right within the inscription THE IMMORTAL MEMORY, the reverse with a crowned Irish harp flanked by fruiting-vine, on a double-series stem and conical foot (two minute chips to footrim), last quarter of the 18th century | Christie's

Lot 35

A WILLIAMITE PORTRAIT OPAQUE-TWIST WINE-GLASS, the funnel bowl engraved with a portrait of William III in profile to the right within the inscription THE IMMORTAL MEMORY, the reverse with a crowned Irish harp flanked by fruiting-vine, on a double-series stem and conical foot (two minute chips to footrim), last quarter of the 18th century

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A WILLIAMITE PORTRAIT OPAQUE-TWIST WINE-GLASS, the funnel bowl engraved with a portrait of William III in profile to the right within the inscription THE IMMORTAL MEMORY, the reverse with a crowned Irish harp flanked by fruiting-vine, on a double-series stem and conical foot (two minute chips to footrim), last quarter of the 18th century
15cm. high

Lot Essay

See Wilfred A. Seaby, Irish Williamite Glass, pl. III (c) and (e) for a plain-stemmed example

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