An Engraved Balustroid Wine Glass c1750

Description

Heading : An Engraved balustroid Wine Glass c1750
Period : George II- George III
Origin : England 
Colour : Clear 
Bowl : Engraved with a single drooping rose bud and lily of the valley.
Stem : Plain with medial ball knop
Foot : Folded . high conical
Pontil : Snapped
Glass Type : Lead 
Size :  15.0cm height.  5.1cm diameter bowl. 6.7cm diameter foot 
Condition : Excellent. no chips or cracks. A piece of white clinker in the foot
Restoration : None 
Weight:  108 grams 

Single bud glasses have been widely discussed within the standard literature. The widely accepted interpretation is that this depicts the last hommage to the Stuarts following the death of Charles Edward Stuart. The glass predates this by some 40 years and thus if the interpretation is to be believed then this was engraved many years after manufacture.