£3,000
Scottish Silver & Applied Arts | 530
Auction: 15 August 2018 at 11:00 BST
the small drawn trumpet bowl finely engraved with open rose head flanked by open and closed buds and foliate, raised on a multi air twist stem and domed foot, the foot engraved to front and back sides 'Redi' within a sprig of oak leaves
Provenance;
Sotheby's 11th June 1936, lot 50 from the Mrs H F Thomas of Elstree Collection (Part one)
Bought by Arthur Churchill (£38)
Reference:
History in Glass, page 9 illustrated glass 32 where it is described as an 'Oak Society Glass' and it states 'five of these glasses came from one house, and we know of no others. Of the five, one has been lost, one broken and one retained by the owner, and possibly disposed of since, as three specimens are traceable'
Old English Drinking Glasses, G Francis page 191
Investing in Georgian Glass, Ward Lloyd page 130
The Jacobite's and their Drinking Glasses, G. Seddon plate 71
Notes:
The Oak Society was one of many pro-Jacobite clubs which sprung up after the defeat at Culloden. They met in London at the Crown & Anchor on the corner of Arundel Street and the Strand. It has been previously discussed that the medallions they produced were done so to commemorate the visit of Prince Charles, in the upmost secrecy, to London and the Society in 1750.
It is also considered that the motto 'Redi' to the foot of this glass relates to these clandestine visits of Prince Charles to London. The supposition being that 'Redi' was a contraction of 'Redii' meaning 'I have returned' so in relation to the visits rather than the beginning of the '45 and Charles's arrival in Scotland.