A RARE JACOBITE SYLLABUB GLASS
18TH CENTURY
£2,000
Scottish Works of Art & Whisky
Auction: 12 August 2020 at 11:00 BST
Description
the deeply tapered bowl with facetted lower section, the upper rim finely engraved with rose head and closed bud, oak leaf, open rose bud, star and FIAT, raised on a knopped stem and plain circular foot
Dimensions
11.2cm high, diameter of foot 6.3cm
Footnote
Literature: For a comparable example see Scottish Silver & Applied Arts, Lyon & Turnbull 14th August 2019 lot 522.
Note: This syllabub glass is a highly unusual form of Jacobite drinking glass. While firing glasses and wine glasses etc. are commonly recorded the number of syllabub glasses number very few.