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 . by the trustees, andone of these objects, the type of the rest, a very elegant bell glass, engraved withthe usual rose and two buds, and a thistle with a star resting on its plume—a rarefeature—is here illustrated (Plate 58, 1). Like the other glasses with this characterof stem, the series in question must be a few years previous to the 45. Thereseems reason for suspecting that the profile-portrait glasses are among the ea
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 . by the trustees, andone of these objects, the type of the rest, a very elegant bell glass, engraved withthe usual rose and two buds, and a thistle with a star resting on its plume—a rarefeature—is here illustrated (Plate 58, 1). Like the other glasses with this characterof stem, the series in question must be a few years previous to the 45. Thereseems reason for suspecting that the profile-portrait glasses are among the earliestof the Young Pretender series proper, and that they were engraved in they cannot be much older than those which exhibit the full-face portraitwithin a plain circle, flanked by the rose and thistle, and with the motto audentiorIBO over it—perhaps also engra\ed in Scotland but by a different hand—or thanthe other glasses from the Shrewsbury Council-House. Two of the portraitAUDENTIOR IBO glasscs are in the collection of Mr. W. Murray Threipland. Theywere originally alike in shape, but little more than the bowl of one now remains See p.
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