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An engraved Privateer decanter and stopper, circa 1760
Footnotes
Literature:
John Shuckburgh Risley, 'Sea-power under George III, illustrated on Contemporary Glass', The Burlington Magazine, Vol.35, no.200, November 1919, p.202 and p.204
Lloyd (2000), p.17, p.94, pl.132(a)
A similarly engraved 'claret' decanter of soda metal of possible French or Belgian origin and bearing the same inscription, was sold in these Rooms, 4 June 2008, lot 301.
The 'Good Intent' is recorded by D.Powell, Bristol Privateers and Ships of War (1930), p.306. She had 15 guns and weighed 180 tons. In May 1793, under the captaincy of Cornelius Smith, she was engaged in battle with a French privateer and was eventually taken as a prize some 3 months later by the privateer Marsellois.
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