The pan top bowl engraved to the upper border engraved with
a scrolling band of flowers including :
a 6-petalled rose, honeysuckle, apple blossom and asters, passion flower, carnation, lily of the valley,
sunflower, and trailing forget-me-nots
above a multiple strand airtwist stem with central swelling knop and conical foot;

the pontil lightly polished as it seems to be on other glasses of this form

Notes :

A pair of wine glasses (Drambuie Collection) having seemingly identical borders,
is illustrated in The Jacobites and their Glasses, Geoffrey Seddon, (2015), pl. 33,
with the following notation :
"With a little imagination the initial letters of the flowers can sometimes be made to spell 'Charles'".

(Carnation, Honeysuckle, Apples, Rose, Sunflower)
In Jacobite symbolism, the well known six-petaled rose represented the Stuart Kings,
the carnation "a coronation", the honeysuckle "Fidelity", and the sunflower "unswerving loyalty".

Reference:

Bickerton (LM), Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses, Barrie & Jenkins, 1971,

illustration 316 and back cover for a very similar glass;
Geoffery B. Seddon, The Jacobites & Their Drinking Glasses, p.100, Colour Pl. 33
(Courtesy Drambuie Liqueur Co.)

Condition : Excellent, with proper age wear to the footrim

6.25" High / The Rim, 2.5" Wide / The Foot, 2.5" Wide

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George II 'Jacobite' Pan-Topped Airtwist Wine Glass, c1750 

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