Description
Heading : An Engraved Georgian Balustroid Wine Glass c1740
Period : George II
Origin : England
Colour : Clear with deep grey tone
Bowl : Ogee. Engraved with a sunflower with leaves and bee in flight *
Stem : Plain with medial ball knop
Foot : Folded high conical foot
Pontil : Snapped
Glass Type : Lead
Size : Height 13.6cm. bowl 4.8cm and foot 6.5cm
Condition : Excellent
Restoration : None
Weight: 123g
Eric Knowles Comments: I have grown increasingly tired of being asked about Jacobite attributions given on third party web sites. Every time there is an engraved flower of any description with an insect in flight up goes the price with yet more fantastic unfounded claims.
Catalogues produced in Europe the late 17th and early 18th century for porcelain painters and engravers include numerous examples of flowers depicted with flying insects.
Rollenhagen’s Devises et Emblemes Anciennes et Modernes – a directory of emblems and images which was intended as a source book for engravers or decorators of ceramics. This was published in 1691 in Amsterdam and the author Daniel de la Feuille admits in the title itself that the devices are not original works and many are direct copies from earlier works.
Tsar Peter’s own book of 1705 edition of Symbola et Emblemata published by Hendrik Wetstein contains pages of designs with flowers and insects.
Yes sunflowers were used within the symbology of the cause. sunflowers follow the sun. the true source of light and yes bees and moths can represent the returning soul. However to assume that every engraved glass bearing these symbols is associated with the cause is unsound. Every rose every carnation every harebell and daffodil and daisy all mashed up into some spray of sedition to seduce the buyer.
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