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Studio: international art — 24.1902

DOI Heft:
No. 104 (November, 1901)
DOI Artikel:
Bate, Percy H.: Historic English drinking glasses
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19874#0121

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Historic English Drinking Glasses

"Now all is done that man can do, shamrock, though both rose and thistle are on the

And all is done in

vain.

bowl.

Of course, if the Jacobites pledged their A glass which really is associated with a corona-
rightful King in the old toast— tion is illustrated as No. 9. This bears the figure

"God bless the Pretender, and God bless the King! of the King's Champion, the holder of the Manor
But which is the Pretender and which is the King ? of Scrivelsby in Lincolnshire, as he rides in full
God bless me! that's quite another thing ! " armour into Westminster Hall during the corona-
and drank also to the little gentleman in the velvet tion banquet, to throw down the gage of battle on
jacket (the mole that made the hill against which behalf of the newly-crowned sovereign. His per-
the horse of William III. stumbled, throwing the quisite is a golden goblet of wine, and this he is
King, and causing his death), their political figured as holding in his hand; and as the date,
opponents were not backward; and we find glasses July 19th, 1821, is also inscribed on the bowl,
inscribed "The Immortal Memory," which were there can be no doubt as to the correctness
used by men of Orange proclivities to drink to the of this attribution. Other glasses with royal
memory of William III. of England as the bulwark associations bear such mottoes as "A Health
of national liberties. The little glass (No. 6) to King George," while there is a very curious
bearing the Union Jack surrounded by the Garter glass in existence which may be associated with
would almost seem to have pertained to some this group as a monument of disloyalty. It
association pledged to support the union of is a tumbler, on one side of which is the word
England and Scotland, in opposition to the "Tinker" and on the other the word "King,"
Jacobites. The duplicate of this glass in the and concealed in the ornaments below the latter
British Museum is labelled as having been used are a number of holes, so that if the person
at a coronation, but though it is heresy of the drinking chose the tinker as his toast the liquor
deepest dye to venture to suggest that the arrived at its proper destination, but if in loyal
authorities of that national institution may be in custom he toasted the King, the ale would pour
error, I fear that this is the case. The glass is of through the holes, not only failing to reach his lips,
about a.d. 1785, and there is no royal symbol to but drenching him into the bargain,
denote any association with a coronation; nor No. 12 is a glass with a very beautifully en-
does it relate to the union with Ireland at the graved figure of Britannia, a purely patriotic
beginning of the nineteenth century, for there is emblem, and I associate with this a decanter of
no cross of St. Patrick in the Jack, and no about the same date, a.d. 1790, which bears the

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HISTORIC GLASSES

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