Description
Heading : EngravedJacobite Sympathy Wine Glass
Date : c1750
Period : George II
Origin : English
Colour : Clear
Bowl : Drawn Trumpet
Bowl Features : Beautifully engraved with a Carnation and single bud with a Bee in flight. The carnation is a simple metaphor
Stem : Plain with long air tear
Foot : Conical
Glass Type : Lead
Size : 6 ½ inches tall with a 2 11/16 inch bowl and 2 15/16 inch foot
Condition : Excellent
Restoration : None
Weight : 230 Grams
Additional Information :
Carnations and the Jacobite cause
All collectors of Jacobite glass will be familiar with engraved Tudor or Stuart roses. Fewer are aware of the significance of Carnations
We don’t know precisely when this association between Carnations and the Jacobites was first made however there are some historical pointers.
Bonnie Prince Charlie was born on 31st December 1720. The following January was unseasonably warm and the Jacobite Times records…
“The year 1721 began with a burst of spring which terrified nervous people. ‘ Strange and ominous.’ was the comment on the suburban fields full of flowers. and on the peas and beans in full bloom at Peterborough House. Milbank. When the carnations budded in January. there was ‘ general amazement ‘ even among people who cut coarse jokes on the suicides. which attended the bursting of the South Sea bubble. The papers were quite funny. too. at the devastation. which an outbreak of smallpox was making among the young beauties of aristocratic families. The disease had silenced the scandal at tea tables. by carrying off the guests. and poor epigrams were made upon them. Dying. dead. or ruined. everyone was laughed at.”
1720 was the low point for the Jacobite cause. A small combined Spanish and Highlander force had been defeated at the battle of Glenshiel the previous summer and it was fully four years since Prince James had set sail from Montrose following the 1715 uprising. James 111 was in his papal palace at the Piazza dei Santi Apostili and was consuming the funds of supporters. The very early budding of Carnations was a “sign”.
Carnations had been associated with “the cause” for quite some time. One of the earliest references we have found is from the first decade of the century.
In the first picture attached. you will see a portrait of Princess Louise the princess royal or “Princess over the water” (youngest daughter of King James II and VII) which was painted about 1704.
References :
The Jacobites and their Drinking Glasses By Geoffrey B. Seddon – Page 79 Plate 25.
Miller’s Glass Buyers Guide – Page 131.
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