Jim Peake
Head of Department
Lot 60
A rare Jacobite engraved airtwist wine glass, circa 1750
29 September 2020, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £4,812.50 inc. premium
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A rare Jacobite engraved airtwist wine glass, circa 1750
Probably for the 'Oak Society', the drawn trumpet bowl with a six-petalled rose on a thorny stem with two buds, one open and one closed, the reverse inscribed 'Fiat' below the rim, on a multi-spiral stem, the conical foot inscribed 'Redi' between a spray of two oak leaves, 15.3cm high
Footnotes
The Oak Society was a Jacobite club whose purpose is thought to have been to raise money for Charles Edward Stuart's attempt to stimulate another rising following the defeat at Culloden, beginning with his secret visit to London in September 1750 (the so-called Elibank plot). They met at the Crown & Anchor tavern on the corner of Arundel Street and the Strand. A similar glass from the Henry Fox Collection was sold by Bonhams on 8 December 2004, lot 73 and again on 6 June 2007, lot 25. Another from the Seton Veitch Collection was sold by Bonhams on 3 June 2009, lot 191 and is illustrated by Delomosne and Son in their 2006 catalogue, pl.11. According to Geoffrey Seddon, The Jacobites and their Drinking Glasses (1995), the decoration may be attributed to Engraver B. Seddon illustrates a similar glass without 'Fiat' at p.114, col. pl.26.
