Skip to main content

This auction has ended. View lot details

You may also be interested in

Own a similar item?

Submit your item online for a free auction estimate.

A rare Jacobite wine or cordial glass, circa 1750 image 1
A rare Jacobite wine or cordial glass, circa 1750 image 2
Lot 44

A rare Jacobite wine or cordial glass, circa 1750

1 May 2013, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £1,187.50 inc. premium

Own a similar item?

Submit your item online for a free auction estimate.

How to sell

Looking for a similar item?

Our Glass specialists can help you find a similar item at an auction or via a private sale.

Find your local specialist

Ask about this lot

A rare Jacobite wine or cordial glass, circa 1750

Of small size and drawn trumpet shape on a multiple spiral airtwist stem, the bowl engraved with a six-petalled rose with a closed bud and a half-open bud, the foot engraved on both sides with a pair of oak leaves flanking the word 'Redi', 15.6cm high

Footnotes

Provenance: Peter Meyer Collection
The Harding Collection (the foot is engraved with collector's initials W.A.H)
Sotheby's sale 5 December 1977, lot 132

Exhibited: Chertsey Museum, 1981-97

Literature: Illustrated by Grant Francis, pl.LXVII, no.371
Illustrated by Barrington Haynes, Glass Through the Ages (1948), pl.79d

Redi, the imperative form of Redeat means 'Return' or 'come back', see Geoffrey Seddon, The Jacobites (1995), p.108, pl.71

Additional information

Bid now on these items