A JACOBITE OPAQUE-TWIST FIRING-GLASS of soda metal and drawn-trumpet shape, inscribed with the motto REVIRESCIT above a tree-trunk with two bare branches and with a small sapling growing beside, on a double-series opaque-twist stem above a thick foot, circa 1765
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A JACOBITE OPAQUE-TWIST FIRING-GLASS of soda metal and drawn-trumpet shape, inscribed with the motto REVIRESCIT above a tree-trunk with two bare branches and with a small sapling growing beside, on a double-series opaque-twist stem above a thick foot, circa 1765
11cm. high
Lot Essay
For an airtwist goblet similarly engraved and inscribed see Joseph Bles, Rare English Glasses of the 17th & 18th Centuries, p. 107, pl. 32