Sir Watkin Williams Wynn: a very rare engraved tumbler, circa 1760-70Perhaps used at The Cycle Club, the plain tapering shape inscribed 'SIR WATKIN WILLIAM WYNN BART' within a banner below the rim, cut with flutes around the lower part and with a star-cut base, 9.4cm highFootnotesProvenance Bonhams, 17 May 2017, lot 45 Stephen Pohlmann Collection Of the many Jacobite clubs and societies that flourished in the middle of the 18th century, perhaps the best known is The Cycle Club, for whom the 'great' Sir Watkin Williams Wynn was President. Wynn was a prominent supporter of the Jacobite cause and the club met at the Eagle in Wrexham and later at Wynnstay, its members all living within a fifteen-mile radius. Whilst Wynn died in 1749, his name continued through many generations and successive Watkin Williams Wynns were all Presidents of The Cycle Club. The many Jacobite clubs, including The Cycle Club, and their associated glasses are discussed by F Peter Lole, A Digest of the Jacobite Clubs, Royal Stuart Society Paper LV (1999) and those commemorating Sir Watkin Williams Wynn by Lole in Roger Dodsworth's catalogue, The Durrington Collection (2006), pp.24-7. It is thought that some Clubs, and The Cycle in particular, had duplicate sets of glasses for use at different meeting venues. A selection of wine glasses used by members of The Cycle Club was sold by Bonhams on 16 December 2009, lots 107-111. These came from an important original set of thirteen glasses which had descended from the Vaughan family of Nannau in North Wales, see Peter Lole, 'Limpid Reflections', Glass Circle News, no.118 (March 2009), pp.7-8. Each glass bears the name of a member of The Cycle, including Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, relating to twenty-six club meetings held by a separate host from 2 July 1770 until 8 July 1772. Four of the glasses are now in the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff. The Wynnstay Cup is an important ceremonial goblet for The Confederate Hunt, affiliated with Wynn and probably also The Cycle Club, see lot 63 in this sale.
Sir Watkin Williams Wynn: a very rare engraved tumbler, circa 1760-70Perhaps used at The Cycle Club, the plain tapering shape inscribed 'SIR WATKIN WILLIAM WYNN BART' within a banner below the rim, cut with flutes around the lower part and with a star-cut base, 9.4cm highFootnotesProvenance Bonhams, 17 May 2017, lot 45 Stephen Pohlmann Collection Of the many Jacobite clubs and societies that flourished in the middle of the 18th century, perhaps the best known is The Cycle Club, for whom the 'great' Sir Watkin Williams Wynn was President. Wynn was a prominent supporter of the Jacobite cause and the club met at the Eagle in Wrexham and later at Wynnstay, its members all living within a fifteen-mile radius. Whilst Wynn died in 1749, his name continued through many generations and successive Watkin Williams Wynns were all Presidents of The Cycle Club. The many Jacobite clubs, including The Cycle Club, and their associated glasses are discussed by F Peter Lole, A Digest of the Jacobite Clubs, Royal Stuart Society Paper LV (1999) and those commemorating Sir Watkin Williams Wynn by Lole in Roger Dodsworth's catalogue, The Durrington Collection (2006), pp.24-7. It is thought that some Clubs, and The Cycle in particular, had duplicate sets of glasses for use at different meeting venues. A selection of wine glasses used by members of The Cycle Club was sold by Bonhams on 16 December 2009, lots 107-111. These came from an important original set of thirteen glasses which had descended from the Vaughan family of Nannau in North Wales, see Peter Lole, 'Limpid Reflections', Glass Circle News, no.118 (March 2009), pp.7-8. Each glass bears the name of a member of The Cycle, including Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, relating to twenty-six club meetings held by a separate host from 2 July 1770 until 8 July 1772. Four of the glasses are now in the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff. The Wynnstay Cup is an important ceremonial goblet for The Confederate Hunt, affiliated with Wynn and probably also The Cycle Club, see lot 63 in this sale.
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