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Lot 83

A Jacobite engraved opaque twist ratafia flute, circa 1765

20 November 2019, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A Jacobite engraved opaque twist ratafia flute, circa 1765

The slender round funnel bowl decorated with a six-petalled rose with two buds, one partially open, the reverse with a butterfly, set on a double-series stem with two pairs of opaque white spiral threads encircling a central gauze, on a conical foot, 18.5cm high

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Provenance
Sotheby's sale, 18 December 2001, lot 70
Basil Jefferies Collection

Illustrated by Geoffrey B Seddon, the Jacobites and Their Drinking Glasses (1995), p.89, pl.26, in which the engraving is attributed to Engraver F. Another similar Jacobite engraved ratafia glass is illustrated by Seddon, col. pl.38. See also the example from the Peter Meyer Collection was sold by Bonhams on 1 May 2013, lot 43, and is illustrated by W A Thorpe, A History of English and Irish Glass (1929), fig.20b.

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