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Jacobite “Amen” Glass. Colorless lead glass; blown and diamond-point (scratch) engraved. Large trumpet-shaped bowl, on heavy drawn straight stem with air bubble near the base of the bowl; the bowl scratch-engraved, with a crown above the mirror monogram "JR8"; "AMEN" in an interlaced frame below; interlaced borders frame lengthy inscriptions on the remainder of the bowl with an inscription on the obverse, divided by the crown and monogram: "God Save The King I pray / God Bliss The King I pray / GOD SAVE / THE KING / Send Him Victorious / Happy and Glorious / Soom to Reign / Over Us / God Save / The King."; and continuing in separately framed areas around the remainder of the bowl "God Bliss The Prince of Wales / The True-born Prince of Wales / Sent Us by Thee: / Grant us one Favour more / The King for to Restore / As Thou hast done before / THE FAMILIE."; "To His Royal Highness / PRINCE HENRY / Duke of Albany & York."; and below "God Save the Church I pray / And Bliss The Church I pray / Pure to Remain / Against all Heresie / And Whigs Hypocrasie / Who strive maliciouslie / Her to Defame."; and "God Bliss the Subjects all / And save both Great and Small / In every Station / That will bring home The King / Who hath best Right to Reign / It is the only Thing / Can Save the Nation."; dated "17 / 49" below the panel inscribed "AMEN"; conical foot; rough pontil mark.
Exhibitions (1)

In Sparkling Company: Glass and the Costs of Social Life in Britain during the 1700s
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 2021-05-22 through 2022-01-02
In 2020, the Corning Museum of Glass (CMoG) will present In Sparkling Company: Glass and Social Life in Britain during the 1700s; an exhibition exploring the role of glass, light and reflectivity in eighteenth-century social life.
In the 1700s, Britain was a vibrant and commercial nation. Its growing cities were hubs of sociability, scientific advancement, trade, and finance.
From glittering costume and elaborately presented confectionery, to polished mirrors and dazzling chandeliers, glass helped define the social rituals and cultural values of the period. While new innovations in glass delighted the wealthy, the material also bore witness to the ambitions of colonization and the horrors of the African slave trade. Glass beads were traded for human lives and elegant glass dishes, baskets and bowls held sweet delicacies made with sugar produced by enslaved labor. Underpinning Britain’s prosperity were aggressive foreign trade policies, colonization and a far-reaching economy of enslavement, the profits of which funded the pleasures and innovations of the fashionable world.
Beginning in the intimate setting of a private dressing room, with a magnificent silver gilt dressing service made for the Duchess of Portland in about 1700, learn about how the elite prepared themselves for a night of revelry and entertainment. See the dazzling clothes and accessories worn by the ‘polished’ individual and understand the rules that governed how they behaved. Enter a specially commissioned virtual reality reconstruction of the remarkable and innovative glass-paneled drawing room designed for the Duke and Duchess of Northumberland in 1775, an interior that hasn’t been seen for nearly 200 years. Become immersed in the glittering nightlife of British elite and feel the tension between the exuberance of the fashionable world and the human cost of such sparkling company.
Through a lens of glass, see what it meant to be ‘modern’ in the 1700s, and what it cost.
Publications (14)
In Sparkling Company: Reflections on Glass in the 18th-century British World (2020)
illustrated, p. 108 (fig. 80);
Y'oroppa amerika no ant'iku garasu : shiru, kau, kataru, kansh'osura (2002)
illustrated, p. 57;
BIB# 74885
Glass Drinking Vessels: From the Collections of Jerome Strauss and The Ruth Bryan Strauss Memorial Foundation: a Special Exhibition, 1955 (1955)
illustrated, pp. 99-100, #247;
BIB# 27783
Glass Drinking Vessels (1942)
pp. 47-51;
Glassmaking History in Drinking Vessels (1941-08)
p. 80;
A Coronation Exhibition of Royal, Historical, Political, and Social Glasses (1937)
pl. 8, p. 9, #30;
BIB# 27511