Description
Heading : A Floral Engraved Georgian Opaque Twist Stem Wine Glass
Period : George II- George III
Origin : England
Colour : Clear
Bowl : Round funnel. Engraved with a tulip flower and leaves and rose bud and leaves together with a bee in flight.
Stem : A ten ply spiral band outside a pair of corkscrew tapes.
Foot : Conical
Pontil : Snapped
Glass Type : Lead
Size : 16.9cm height. 5.5cm diameter bowl. 6.8cm diameter foot
Condition : Excellent. no chips or cracks
Restoration : None
Weight: 134grams
Notes : There is an obvious temptation with glasses of this nature to apply the popular misconception that a bee in flight – a rose bud and a tulip would have all the ingredients of the typical Jacobite melodrama engraved upon period glassware! Anyone can weave a story to make this fit the engraving and all too often they do. The tulip and rose combination could have some contrived Williamite connotations.
This is almost certainly an example of a botanical decorative theme. nothing seditious or disguised. no hidden meanings.
The Intire Glass Shop advertised Flower’d glasses on their trade card as early as 1742. With floral designs featuring prominently in decorators books of the period it seems entirely logical that an engraver would choose to use a theme from the natural world to adorn glassware. just as painters did for porcelain. This is a far more plausible reason for the engraving than hidden support for a lost cause. just much less romantic and far less commercial.
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