Very Rare Jacobite Engraved 18th Century Wine Glass c1750

Description

Heading : A Jacobite engraved double series mercury twist wine glass
Period : c1750
Origin : England 
Colour : Clear 
Bowl : Bucket shaped. Engraved with a rose open bud and closed bud. Engraved A according to Seddon mehodology
Stem : Four mercury air spiral threads outside a mercury air corkscrew
Foot : Conical
Pontil :
Glass Type : Lead 
Size :  15.8cm height.  5.3cm diameter bowl. 6.8cm diameter foot 
Condition : Excellent. no chips or cracks 
Restoration : None 
Weight:  131 grams 

Of all air twist wine glasses less than ten percent have double series mercury twist stems and fewer than one in ten of this group had a bucket bowl. This is a rare wine glass without the engraving .

Bucket bowls are used on just one in twelve Jacobite engraved glasses. Mercury twist stems appear on fewer than two percent of all Jacobite wine glasses. Thus the combination accounts for less than twenty in on a thousand Jacobite engraved glasses.

It is not a coincidence therefore that this is the only example that we have offered for sale. It is a very rare glass