Lot 343
A LARGE LATE 18TH CENTURY JACOBITE PORTRAIT WINE GLASS
Scottish Works of Art & Whisky
Auction: 16 August 2023 at 11:00 BST
Description
the drawn trumpet bowl finely engraved with a profile portrait of Prince Charles Edward Stuart within a laurel leaf cartouche, the reverse with large display of an engraved open rose flanked by open and closed bud and thistle, on a swollen knopped multi air twist stem and domed circular foot
Dimensions
17.3cm high
Footnote
Note:
A similar large example with motto AUDENTIOR IBO sold Lyon & Turnbull ‘Jacobite, Stuart and Scottish Applied Arts’ 13th May 2015, lot 58 (sold £1875)
The engraving on this glass suggests Engraver D as the likely artist. The placement of the Garter star on the wrong side and tightly engraved hair among other comparable show great similarity to a glass within The Drambuie Collection.
See 'The Jacobites and their Drinking Glasses' G Seddon, colour plate 31