Wine glass

Description

Amen wine glass with a drawn trumpet bowl, plain stem and folded, circular foot, engraved with a crown surmounting the cypher 'JR' intertwined with the figure 8, alluding to James VIII, and with two verses of the Jacobite anthem, with 'To the Prosperity of the Family of Lochiell' engraved on the foot: c. 1750

Museum reference

A.1952.71

Object name

Wine glass, Amen glass

Date

c. 1750

Materials

Glass

Physical description

Glass; drawn trumpet bowl, plain stem and folded, circular foot; engraved in diamond-point

Associations

James Francis Edward Stuart, Prince, 1688 - 1766
Cameron of Lochiel

References

Seddon, G.B., 'The Jacobites and their Drinking Glasses', Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge, 1995

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