Jim Peake
Head of Department
Lot 49
Three engraved wine glasses, second half 19th century
29 September 2020, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £573.75 inc. premium
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Three engraved wine glasses, second half 19th century
Decorated in 18th century style, comprising a Williamite glass by Franz Tieze, the conical bowl with an equestrian portrait of the King inscribed 'THE GLORIOUS MEMORY OF KING WILLIAM III', the reverse with 'BOYNE 1ST JULY 1690' over 'HLStG', on a plain swelling stem between collars and a conical folded foot, 15.9cm high, a glass of Jacobite interest, the round funnel bowl with a portrait of Prince Charles Edward Stuart within a laurel wreath beneath the inscription 'AUDENTIOR IBO', flanked by heraldic rose sprays, with a thistle and star to the reverse, on a stem with four beaded knops, 15.5cm high, and a pro-Hanoverian glass, the round funnel bowl with the Horse of Hanover below a banderole inscribed 'LIBERTY', the reverse with a thorny rose spray, the plain stem with shoulder and central knops, 16.9cm high
Footnotes
It is likely that the initials 'HLStG' on the Williamite glass are those of Henry Lucas St George (1781-1872), clergyman for Dromore in West Tyrone, Ireland. Reverend St George was a Grand Chaplain in the Orange Order, a Protestant fraternal order in Northern Ireland, the name of which is a tribute to the Protestant King William III and his defeat over the Catholic King James II in the Williamite–Jacobite War (1688–1691). Tieze is known to have supplied Orange Order lodges with engraved glasses of this type.
