Description
the baluster body with simple straight spout and facetted diamond stopper, the main body engraved with facing portrait of Prince Charles Edward Stuart in a circular cartouche with banner inscribed 'AUDENTIOR IBO' above, the reverse finely engraved with large displayed open rose head with open and closed buds within foliage
Dimensions
27cm high
Footnote
Provenance:
Previously in the collection of Sir Hector Munro, Baron Munro of Langholm, who was a conservative politician and member of parliament for Dumfries for 33 years.
Purchased at Sotheby's 24th November 1986, Lot 34.
Notes: While Jacobite glasses of all forms are well recorded, including those scarce examples with portraits, the survival of Jacobite decanters such as this in any form is extremely rare. This particularly fine example is not only rare with respect to the quality of the engraving and iconography but more so in the use of such an overt portrait of Prince Charles Edward Stuart.
As seen with surviving glasses, only a very small percentage have such overt representations of Charles and finding one in such a large and fine scale on a decanter is highly unusual. It is considered that only a very small handful of Jacobite decanters of any form survive and this is perhaps one of less than five featuring a portrait.