3 Jun 2009
10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street
Fine British & European Glass & Paperweights
Back to auction 16801
Fine British & European Glass & Paperweights
Back to auction 16801
A rare engraved Jacobite portrait firing glass
Circa 1750.
The drawn trumpet bowl on short plain stem and solid foot, engraved with a bust portrait of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, to dexter, within an oval cartouche, inscribed beneath Audentior ibo, the reverse with an heraldic rose and two buds, 8.8cm high
The drawn trumpet bowl on short plain stem and solid foot, engraved with a bust portrait of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, to dexter, within an oval cartouche, inscribed beneath Audentior ibo, the reverse with an heraldic rose and two buds, 8.8cm high
Sold for
£6,960
inc. premium
Footnotes
- Provenance: The Hamilton Clements Collection; Sotheby's, 10 February 1986, lot 109; Sotheby's, 2 December 2004, lot 100. According to Seddon (1995), the decoration may be attributed to Engraver C in the author's nomenclature. Illustrated by Francis (1926), pl.LXIV, no.366. It would appear that the present lot may be one of a set of which two examples were presented to Queen Victoria
Category: Decorative Arts / European Ceramics
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