Description
A stunning Georgian double series mercury air twist wine glass with an engraved pointed funnel bowl of Jacobite significance. Henry Campion (1680 to 1761) was a renowned Jacobite supporter from Goudhurst. Kent and was a Tory MP for Sussex from 1713 to the uprising in 1715.
On the 24th June 1714 Campion opposed an address of thanks to Queen Anne to introduce a £100.000 reward for the capture of the “Pretender”. James Francis Edward Stuart. He spoke again on the 15th August 1714 against another attempt to introduce the reward. This effectively put an end to his political career even though he was widely tipped to become the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the next administration. led by another Jacobite Viscount Bolingbroke.
It was Campion’s role to organise an uprising in the West of England during the 1715 rebellion and to act as an messenger with the Jacobite court in exile.
Following the failure of the uprising he spent many years abroad not retuning to England until 1720. in 1725 he moved to Hurstpierpoint in West Sussex where he resided until his death in 1761.Both Elizabeth and Henry Campion were celebrated Jacobite’s. This glass was purchased from a private collection in West Grinstead. Sussex where it had resided from the 1920’s.
The bowl is engraved with a flowering Campion. with two blooms. The stem features a pair of mercury spiral tapes around a central gauze. Conical foot. snapped pontil. English Lead. No chips. cracks or restoration.
It measures 6 ¼ tall with a 2 ¼ inch bowl and 2 ¾ inch foot.
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