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A rare panel moulded stem George I Royal commemorative wine glass, circa 1714
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A rare panel moulded stem George I Royal commemorative wine glass, circa 1714
Footnotes
Literature:
Lloyd (2000), p.90, pl.123 and p.28
See the similar example sold in these Rooms, 17 December 2008, lot 264
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 L.M.Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (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 Robert Charleston, English Glass (1984), pp.145-146). See also the inscribed example sold Bonhams, 4 June 2008, lot 17. Two further examples with crowns are illustrated by Arthur Churchill Ltd., History in Glass (1937), pl.4, nos.13 and 14.
