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A pair of engraved Jacobite air twist wine glasses, circa 1750
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A pair of engraved Jacobite air twist wine glasses, circa 1750
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Provenance: The Seagram Collection, sold by Artcurial Paris, 15 March 2005, lot 49
With the Blumka Gallery, New York, sold circa 1958
Exhibited in the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, as part of the 'Wine: Celebration and Ceremony' exhibition in 1985.
On Jacobite glasses the oak often takes the form of a single leaf on the reverse of the glass. The oak leaf was a Tory emblem in the 1710 election and is also an emblem of the Start clan, who wore an oak leaf when going into battle. The oak is therefore not only of English significance. A near identical glass is illustrated by L. M. Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), p. 281, cat. 889. Another similar glass, but without the oak leaf, was sold by Bonhams Edinburgh, 28 August 2008, lot 358.
