An impressive large Jacobite tumbler
Jacobite, Stuart, and Scottish Applied Arts
Auction: 13 May 2015 at 12:00 BST
£1,563
Description
the deep tapered bowl with engraved portrait in profile of Prince Charles Edward Stuart within a laurel leaf cartouche, each side flanked by open rose with twin open and closed buds
Dimensions
17cm high
Footnote
Notes: The large scale of this tumbler is highly unusual in Jacobite glass and probably signifying communal drinking, either within a gathered group of Jacobite supporters or possibly in the Jacobite clubs which sprang up within the wake of the failure of the '45.