SOLD – Georgian Jacobite Engraved Deceptive Firing Glass c1750

Description

A very rare Georgian Jacobite engraved firing glass c1750.

It has a deceptive round funnel bowl above a plain stem and thick firing foot with snapped pontil.

English lead. no chips cracks or restoration and measures 4 inches tall with a 1 15/16 inch bowl and 2 3/8 inch foot.

The bowl has a very detailed engraved “crowned thistle” with the letter I S either side. Iákōbos in the new testament Greek or Iacobus in Latin translate as James and this is the origin of the word Jacobite. and it matters more than one iota ( one jot). Both ancient Greek and Latin alphabets had no letter J. Iacobus Stuart was the Old Pretender himself.

Examples of crowned thistle glasses can be seen on page 100 and 101 within “The Jacobites and their Drinking Glasses” by Geoffrey Seddon where he explains that the thistle was first used as a Royal Badge in the fourteenth century by James III of Scotland and that the most Noble Order of the Thistle is second only to the Most Noble Order of the Garter. The Royal Badge of Scotland is a thistle with a crown.

Another example is to be found in the Melbourne Museum in Australia . a wine glass with the same motif. The second example we have had with the Old Pretender represented in this manner.