Amen Jacobite Wineglass

Object Name: 
Amen Jacobite Wineglass

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Object Name: 
Amen Jacobite Wineglass
Place Made: 
England
Accession Number: 
50.2.112
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 17.5 cm; Rim Diam: 7.75 cm; Foot Diam: 7.6 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
glass made about 1720
engraved 1750
Primary Description: 
Colorless lead glass; blown, diamond-point engraved. Drawn trumpet bowl and heavy stem with large tear below the inside bottom of bowl, applied high sloping or shallow cone foot with plain rim and rough pontil mark; bowl with scratched line engraving -- cypher "JR" and figure "8" below Royal Crown and above "Amen" in arabesque or scrolled oval medallion, same arabesque or scrolled eights forming borders of two verses of the Jacobite anthem.

More Info

Department: 
European
Provenance: 
Steuben Glass, Inc., Source
1950-10-01
Category: 
Baroque
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
glassblowing
diamond-point engraving
Material: 
lead glass
Inscription: 
God Save the King I pray / God Save: / Send Him Victorious / Soon to Reign / God Save
Inscription
God Bless the King I pray / The King: / Happy and Glorious / Over Us / The King
Inscription
God Bless the Prince of Wales, / The True-born Prince of Wales, / Send Us by Thee, / Grant Us one Favour more, / The King for to Restore, / As Thou hast done before, / The Familie.
Inscription
8
Mark
J R
Mark

Exhibitions (1)

Title Unknown (Royal Ontario Museum)
Venue(s)
Royal Ontario Museum 1950-05 through 1950-11

Publications (2)

The Story of Glass (1953) illustrated, plate 8-9 (fig. g); BIB# 25461
English and Irish Glass in The Corning Glass Center (1951-06) p. 470;