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Lot 200

A Jacobite engraved opaque twist ratafia flute
Circa 1765

14 – 15 October 2021, 14:00 BST
Edinburgh

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A Jacobite engraved opaque twist ratafia flute

Circa 1765
The slender round funnel bowl decorated with a six-petalled rose with two buds, one partially open, on a conical foot, 18.5cm high.

Footnotes

Provenance:
Sotheby's 18th Dec 2001, lot 70, Basil Jefferies Collection
Bonhams, Fine Glass, 20th November 2019, London, Lot 83

Illustrated by Geoffrey B Seddon, the Jacobites and Their Drinking Glasses (1995), p.89, pl.26, in which the engraving is attributed to Engraver F. Another similar Jacobite engraved ratafia glass is illustrated by Seddon, col. pl.38. See also the example from the Peter Meyer Collection was sold by Bonhams on 1 May 2013, lot 43, and is illustrated by W A Thorpe, A History of English and Irish Glass (1929), fig.20b.

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