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Lot 84

A very rare engraved Jacobite colour twist wine glass, circa 1760

20 November 2019, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £9,437.50 inc. premium

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A very rare engraved Jacobite colour twist wine glass, circa 1760

The bell bowl decorated with a six-petalled rose with two buds, one partially open, the reverse with a butterfly, set on a stem enclosing an opaque white multi-ply corkscrew with a brick-red core, edged on one side with cobalt blue and the other in pale green, encircled by a pair of opaque white spiral threads, on a conical foot, 17.4cm high

Footnotes

Provenance
With Brayhawks Antiques, Plaxtol, 16 January 2007
Basil Jefferies Collection

According to Geoffrey B Seddon, The Jacobites and Their Drinking Glasses (1995), the decoration on this glass may be attributed to Engraver F in the author's nomenclature.

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