Lot 44
RARE PAIR OF JACOBITE GLASS DECANTERS
MID 18TH CENTURY
Fine Furniture and Works of Art
Auction: 27 January 2016 at 10:00 GMT
Description
each of tapered shouldered form with a slender neck, engraved with displayed rose head flanked by open and closed buds and to the reverse with displayed chrysanthemum and buds, each with a faceted stopper (2)
Dimensions
25cm and 24.5cm high
Footnote
Note:
The survival of Jacobite drinking glasses is well recorded and a great variety in style and design is encountered. The survival of decanters however is much rarer with less examples to compare. The few recorded seem to follow the same basic designs as the glasses, using the same iconography and symbolism which would have been apparent to the Jacobite supporters.
It is not clear why the survival of decanters is quite scarce, but it is thought that the larger stature of them may have been too much of a show of support for the cause and harder to disguise to the non-Jacobite community.
For a rare Jacobite portrait example see Lyon & Turnbull 'Jacobite, Stuart & Scottish Applied Arts', 13th May 2015, lot 56