CIRCA 1750

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A SET OF EIGHT WINE-GLASSES OF JACOBITE SIGNIFICANCE
CIRCA 1750
The pan-topped bowls engraved with continuous garlands of flowers including carnations, honeysuckle, roses and lilies, among other flowers and fruiting foliage, on airtwist stems and on conical feet
6 1/8 in. (15.5 cm.) high (8)

Provenance

Sold in 1919 from the estate of the late Surgeon Commander Frederick Fawssett of Westgate House, Lincs., and thence by descent.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Cf. L.M. Bickerton, An Illustrated Guide to English Eighteenth-Century Drinking Glasses (London, 1971), no. 637; and Geoffrey B. Seddon, The Jacobites and their Drinking Glasses (Woodbridge, 1995), pl. 33, p. 126, where the author notes that the Jacobite association relates to the fact that the initial letters of the flowers (carnation, honeysuckle, rose, lily) allude to the name 'Charles'.

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