Old English glassesAn account of glass drinking vessels in England, from early times to the end of the eighteenth centuryWith introductory notices, original documents, etc . h panelled doors and a lock. It is just deep enoughto contain a framed bust portrait within an oval, painted in profile, a handsomerface than usual, of the Young Pretender. The prince is shown in armour, avery late example of the fashion in portraits, with a lance-rest on the left side,because the painter did not understand its use; and he wears his own hair tiedback with a bow of ribbon (Plate 63). It was customary at the
Old English glassesAn account of glass drinking vessels in England, from early times to the end of the eighteenth centuryWith introductory notices, original documents, etc . h panelled doors and a lock. It is just deep enoughto contain a framed bust portrait within an oval, painted in profile, a handsomerface than usual, of the Young Pretender. The prince is shown in armour, avery late example of the fashion in portraits, with a lance-rest on the left side,because the painter did not understand its use; and he wears his own hair tiedback with a bow of ribbon (Plate 63). It was customary at the Cycle meetings at See p. 350. Jacobites are said to have kissed this token of See p. 320. promise on emptying their glasses to The King ^ The (7«rtj-/-heraldic Stuart rose with six petals, over the Water. Fiat is taken to be the word and two buds, is said to typify James IL, and the of the Cycle, but there seems to be no absolute Old and the Young Pretenders ; the Star must proof of it, nor does it appear upon the Cycle be a luminary of the same nature as that which Jewel ; the Oak Leaf must be allusive to Rcstora- the great Napoleon ever had in his mind. The < a. o H _l DO H< I-UJ <o I. CO(O CHAP. XXIV. DISTORTED PORTRAITS. 369 Oulton for the cabinet to be placed upon the table after dinner and the doors tobe unlocked with some ceremony, and the health of the prince given. From theyouthful appearance of the portrait it probably dates from the days of Sir ThomasGrey, sixth baronet, who died unmarried in 1744, or of his successor Thomas, whodied in 1756.^ The procedure in drinking the health of Prince Charles Edward at OultonPark, differing altogether from the usual Jacobite practice, was a revival of acustom of Royalist Societies after the death of Charles I. At that time a distortedportrait of the King was laid upon the table, a short cylindrical mirror placed on acertain marked spot, and the royal face was imaged in the glass to the guests, whothen drank to
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