THE GLASS CIRCA 1765, THE ENGRAVING POSSIBLY LATER

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AN ENGRAVED PRINCE OF WALES WINE-GLASS
THE GLASS CIRCA 1765, THE ENGRAVING POSSIBLY LATER
The ogee bowl engraved with the Prince of Wales feathers above the motto ICH DIEN, the reverse with a four petal flower flanked by buds, supported by a stem enclosing thick spiralling ribbons with some elongated air inclusions to the edge within multi-ply spiral, on a conical foot
5½ in. (13.8 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

See Geoffrey B. Seddon, The Jacobites and Their Drinking Glasses (Woodbridge, 1995), p. 102, for a discussion of the use of feathers as the badge of the Heir Apparent and examples of the use of the fleur-de-lys.

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