A JACOBITE PORTRAIT AIRTWIST WINE-GLASS, the funnel bowl with a bust portrait of The Young Pretender within a circular line cartouche above the inscription Audentio ibo, the reverse with a rose, bud and half-opened bud, the stem filled with spiral threads above a conical foot, circa 1750

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A JACOBITE PORTRAIT AIRTWIST WINE-GLASS, the funnel bowl with a bust portrait of The Young Pretender within a circular line cartouche above the inscription Audentio ibo, the reverse with a rose, bud and half-opened bud, the stem filled with spiral threads above a conical foot, circa 1750
15cm. high

Provenance

Thomas Collection, sale Sotheby's, 11 June 1936, lot 53

Lot Essay

Cf. Francis Buckley, A History of Old English Glass, pl. LIX(B) and Grant R. Francis, Old English Drinking Glasses, pl. LXIV, no. 365; also the example sold in these Rooms on 17 November 1992, lot 36 and the plain-stemmed example sold in these Rooms on 4 June 1991, lot 78

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