The 'Watkin' glass from Oxburgh Hall: an engraved airtwist goblet of Jacobite significance

CIRCA 1750

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The 'Watkin' glass from Oxburgh Hall: an engraved airtwist goblet of Jacobite significance
Circa 1750
Of drawn-trumpet form, the bowl inscribed LET, NO, DECIEPT(sic), WITHIN, IN, YOUR, GLASS, BE, FOUND, BUT GLORIOUS WATKINS HAELTH(sic) GO BRISKLY ROUND above a spiral meandering branch of fruiting-vine, the stem filled with spiral threads, on a folded conical foot
7 in. (19 cm.) high

Provenance

Oxburgh Hall, Norfolk.
Hamilton Clements Collection, sale Sotheby's, 6th November 1930, lot 142.

Literature

Charles Ed. Jerningham, "The Oxburgh Glasses", Connoisseur, May 1908, p.17, no.1.
Francis Buckley, op. cit.(1925), pl. 29, fig. A.
Grant R. Francis, Old English Drinking Glasses(1926), pl. 77.

Lot Essay

The most celebrated of all Jacobite Clubs - the Cycle Club, or to give its full title the Cycle of the White Rose - was founded on 10th June 1710, the anniversary of the Old Pretender's birthday, by Sir Watkin Williams Wynn of Wynnstay, a well-known Jacobite. For a detailed discussion of the Cycle Club which continued in existence for almost one hundred and fifty years, see Geoffrey B. Seddon, op. cit.(1995), p. 64 and pp. 67-68.

The present glass is one of the hoard of eleven Jacobite glasses found at Oxburgh Hall, Norfolk, the seat of the Bedingfeld family, in September 1907 by Mr. C.E. Jerningham. For a discussion on this find see Geoffrey B. Seddon, op. cit., pp. 62-64.

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