A RARE JACOBITE SYLLABUB GLASS
MID-18TH CENTURY
£2,500
Scottish Silver & Applied Arts
Auction: 14 August 2019 at 11:00 BST
Description
the flared bowl finely engraved with a rose head flanked by open and closed buds, on a compressed knop with air bubbles, on a stepped domed foot
Dimensions
10cm high
Footnote
Provenance: Private collection of G. S. May Esquire
Note: This unusual glass seems to be a crossover pattern between a firing glass and a syllabub glass; an unusual pattern which is rarely seen with Jacobite engraving. Although of standard firing glass size it does not have the heavy thick foot that the standard form requires and the bowl shape is slightly later than the drawn bowls of the early 18th century when firing glasses were more common. The attractive compressed stem and domed foot along with the waisted bowl seem to suggest this is a syllabub glass. For one of very few comparable examples see 'The Scottish Sale', 26 - 17th April 2017, Bonham's, Edinburgh, lot 247.