A rare commemorative wine glass
Circa 1715.
The flared bowl with solid base, set on a four-sided teared pedestal stem moulded with a crown on each of the four shoulders and a diamond on each side, over a folded conical foot, 14.6cm high (small chip to shoulder)
The flared bowl with solid base, set on a four-sided teared pedestal stem moulded with a crown on each of the four shoulders and a diamond on each side, over a folded conical foot, 14.6cm high (small chip to shoulder)
Sold for
£3,120
inc. premium
Footnotes
- The present lot is one of a rare group of early pro-Hanoverian glasses probably made to celebrate the coronation of George 1 in 1714. See Bickerton (1971), p.125, nos.286 and 291 for two further examples with moulded crowns the first of which combines the inscription GOD SAVE KING GEORGE. The second example has a thistle-shaped bowl. Neither of these examples, however, combines the crowns with the diamond lozenges. The crown may appear to be the precursor for the more ubiquitous star usually found on such stems (see Charleston (1984), pp.145-146). See also the inscribed example sold Bonhams, 4 June 2008, lot 17
Category: Decorative Arts / European Ceramics
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