Description
Engraved with a Jaybird in flight a symbol of the usurpation of Stuarts. In Aesop’s fables the jay dresses himself in peacock’s feathers. but the peacocks on finding the imposter pluck away his feathers and the Jay returns to from whence he came. The other Jays remind him that “it is not only fine feathers that make a fine bird”.
Jays are quite frequently engraved on late Jacobite sympathy glasses. but rarely are explanations given. The wild rose is a reference to fertility being restored. the white rose of the Stuarts. White roses were worn for a long period to celebrate the Old pretenders birthday and still are by the loyal few on 10th June each year. The Jaybird is looking towards the rose which symbolically has changed the direction of its growth and is now turning towards the usurper!
It stands 4 7/8th inches tall with a 1 7/8th inch bowl and 2 5/8th inch foot. The twist consists of a 9-ply spiral thread outside a pair of spirial threads.
English lead. no chips. cracks or restoration.
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