SOLD- Georgian Engraved Opaque Twist Wine Glass c1760

Description

Heading : Opaque Twist Wine Glass
Date : c1760
Period : George III
Origin : English
Colour : Clear
Bowl : Ogee
Bowl Features : Engraved with a single open rose bud with three rose leaves and a Jay
Stem : Double series opaque twist
Stem Features : Pair of 7-ply spiral bands outside a multiply corkscrew
Foot : Conical
Pontil : Snapped
Glass Type : Lead
Size : 5 ¾ inches tall with a 1 15/16 inch bowl and 2 13/16 inch foot   
Condition : Excellent
Restoration : None
Weight: 200 grams

Single open rose buds with no closed bud or open rose. poem authors associate this with the very end of the Jacobite cause following the death of the old pretender James Francis Edward Stuart in 1766. The Jay is widely accepted to be  areference to aesops fables and the usurpation.