A JACOBITE CRESTED LIGHT-BALUSTER WINE-GLASS, the funnel bowl engraved with a seven-petalled rose and a bud, the reverse with a crest (a lion, statant, gardant), the multi-knopped stem including a beaded knop above a domed foot, circa 1755

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A JACOBITE CRESTED LIGHT-BALUSTER WINE-GLASS, the funnel bowl engraved with a seven-petalled rose and a bud, the reverse with a crest (a lion, statant, gardant), the multi-knopped stem including a beaded knop above a domed foot, circa 1755
16cm. high

Provenance

Captain N.L. Davidson, sale Christie's, 11 May 1936, lot 124
Mrs. A.M. Hallidie, sale Sotheby's, 21 February 1946, lot 28

Lot Essay

A similarly crested Jacobite glass and possibly of the same construction, was included in the collection of Grant R. Francis, sale Christie's, 17 July 1934, lot 92 and where it was suggested that the lion (uncrowned) represented Scotland

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