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Wine glass
(c. 1745)
- Medium
- glass (wheel-engraved)
- Measurements
- 17.9 × 8.2 cm diameter
- Place/s of Execution
- England
- Accession Number
- D100-1973
- Department
- International Decorative Arts
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
William and Margaret Morgan Endowment, 1973
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Mr Hugh M Morgan AC and Mrs Elizabeth Morgan - Gallery location
- 17th & 18th Century Decorative Arts & Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International - About this work
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In 1651 during English Civil War, the Stuart king Charles II escaped capture by Parliamentary forces at the Battle of Worcester by hiding in an oak tree on the estate of Boscobel House. This wine glass is engraved with an image depicting the fugitive king in this tree, the Royal Oak. The tree is surmounted by three crowns, representing the Stuart kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland. Created around the time of the 1745 Jacobite uprising, this glass reflects its owner’s loyalties to the Stuart pretenders in veiled fashion by evoking the 1660 restoration of Charles II to his thrones.
- Physical description
- Trumpet bowl, engraved Charles II, three crowns partly concealed within foliage of Boscobel Oak.