SOLD – Georgain Jacobite Sympathy Opaque Twist Engraved Firing Glass c1760

Description

An Opaque Twist Firing Glass c1760.

It has an Ogee bowl beautifully engraved with a flowering Carnation a simple metaphor for “coronation”. There is also a very rare example of another genus of plant with its flower head being symbolically “cut”. We have seen examples with thyme and rue being engraved “Rue and Thyme” being a well known jacobite toast. However. in this case the plant in question may be sorrel.

The horse from which William 111 fell had been confiscated from one Sir John Fenwick. a Jacobite. Fenwick is alleged to have been a conspirator in the plot to ambush and kill William in 1696. The following year he paid for his misdemeanours with his head. It was left to Sir John’s former horse. White Sorrel. to exact revenge in stumbling upon a mole hill and to throw William. an act that lead to his death. William’s not the poor horse. Both the “gentleman in black velvet” and “Sorrel” were celebrated in certain quarters from that day forth.

Double Series Opaque Twist Stem consisting of a pair of spiral threads outside a spiral gauze. Sits on a thick firing foot with a snapped pontil.

English lead. no chips cracks or restoration. it measures 3 7/8 i8nches tall with a 2 inch bowl and 2 3/8 inch foot.