Lot 4
RARE JACOBITE ENGRAVED GLASS TANKARD
MID-18TH CENTURY
Fine Furniture and Works of Art | 519
Auction: 2 May 2018 at 11:00 BST
Description
the large baluster tankard with finely engraved displayed open rose head flanked by open bud and foliage, with further trailing foliage and moth/butterfly, bold S scroll handle with folded terminal and elongated tapered rat tail, raised on a simple socle domed foot with pontil mark to underside
Dimensions
Height: 13cm, Diameter of rim: 9.5cm, Width across handle: 13.5cm
Footnote
Note: Jacobite glass was a standard way to show support for the cause, however extant glasses are almost exclusively stemmed and considered for wine, liquor or cordial. This tankard is one of only a very small number recorded and considered one of the rarest forms of Jacobite glass. Indeed, in Geoffrey Seddon's seminal work 'The Jacobites and Their Drinking Glasses' there is only one tankard illustrated, part of the Drambuie Liqueur Company Collection, the largest collection of Jacobite glass known.
This glass also shows a direct relationship between the glassmaker's craft and that of the goldsmiths of Scotland, being an almost direct copy of a standard silver form of the mid-18th century. This flow and interchange of influence is rarely seen between the two crafts.