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C1775 Rare Engraved Scale Cut Facet Stem Wine Glass browse these categories for related items... Directory: Antiques: Decorative Art: Glass: English: Pre 1800: item # 876879 Please refer to our stock # P18DG 171 when inquiring.
Cotswold Antiques and Glass The Docks. Gloucester. England. Guest Book £720 |
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| A rare and elegant English Georgian wine glass dating to C1775. A two piece glass with a shallow and wide ovoid bowl beautifully engraved. A symmetrical weaved basket of flowers with associated foliage and buds to one side and to the reverse a bee. The fine quality engraving is embellished with polished detail over this and further fine detail over that. The engraving indicates that it is a disguised Jacobite glass. The first letters of the engraved flowers forming part of ‘Charles’. Carnation, Honeysuckle, Anemone & Rose. According to Seddon the bee and other insects and grubs are sometimes said to represent the decay of the Jacobite movement where they appear on Jacobite glass; which would seem appropriate, given the date of this item. The bowl is bridge cut to the base and falls to a rare scale cut facet stem. The appearance of the scale cutting is of small shields. This form of cutting is occasionally found on taper and candle sticks, but rarely on a wine glass. The glass is finished with a wide conical foot with rough pontil. Pristine condition. Height: 5 ¼” Rim: 2 5/16” Foot: Just over 3” English facet stem wines are seldom found with such fine polished engraving. This combined with a rare bowl form and style of stem cutting makes for a desirable piece. The glass can be compared with Messrs Delomosne’s glass 9b of their exhibition of facet stem wine glasses shown at Grosvenor House Art & Antiques Fair 2005; though it appears not to be exactly the same glass. | ||
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