The Friendly Hunt: a rare engraved firing glass of possible Jacobite interest, circa 1750The ovoid bowl inscribed 'FRIENDLY HUNT' beneath a fruiting vine border to the rim, on a short plain stem and solid circular 'firing' foot, 11cm highFootnotesProvenance Chris Crabtree Collection The Friendly Hunt was a Worcestershire meet probably connected with a Jacobite society in Worcester known as The Friendly Association. Founded in 1747, the Association met annually in rotation in the neighbouring towns of Droitwich, Bromsgrove, Kidderminster and Stourbridge. No others of this form would be recorded, but a number with drawn trumpet bowls exist. One from The Ron and Mary Thomas Collection was sold by Bonhams on 4 June 2008 and is illustrated by Geoffrey Seddon, The Jacobites and their Drinking Glasses (1995), p.120, pl.86 and by Arthur Churchill, History in Glass (1937), pl.20, no.92. Another was sold by Bonhams on 29 September 2020, lot 47. For further details see Peter Lole, A Digest of the Jacobite Clubs, Royal Stuart Society Paper LV (1999).
The Friendly Hunt: a rare engraved firing glass of possible Jacobite interest, circa 1750The ovoid bowl inscribed 'FRIENDLY HUNT' beneath a fruiting vine border to the rim, on a short plain stem and solid circular 'firing' foot, 11cm highFootnotesProvenance Chris Crabtree Collection The Friendly Hunt was a Worcestershire meet probably connected with a Jacobite society in Worcester known as The Friendly Association. Founded in 1747, the Association met annually in rotation in the neighbouring towns of Droitwich, Bromsgrove, Kidderminster and Stourbridge. No others of this form would be recorded, but a number with drawn trumpet bowls exist. One from The Ron and Mary Thomas Collection was sold by Bonhams on 4 June 2008 and is illustrated by Geoffrey Seddon, The Jacobites and their Drinking Glasses (1995), p.120, pl.86 and by Arthur Churchill, History in Glass (1937), pl.20, no.92. Another was sold by Bonhams on 29 September 2020, lot 47. For further details see Peter Lole, A Digest of the Jacobite Clubs, Royal Stuart Society Paper LV (1999).
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