Glass (for drinking) (Wineglass)

Description

England's "Glorious Revolution" (1688) cut short the reign of Catholic James II in favor of Protestant William III and Mary II, James’s daughter. Thus began the important and long-lived Jacobite political movement protesting the removal of Stuarts from the royal line. Jacobite toasts and drinking vessels were plentiful. On the glass shown here, the three roses represent James II and his sons, Charles Edward Stewart (Bonnie Prince Charlie) and Henry Benedict Stuart. The word Fiat, Latin for “Let it Be,” is associated with a prayer for the Stuarts’ return to the monarchy. The form of this wineglass--a trumpet-shaped bowl on a plain drawn stem and low conical foot--help date it to the early mid 1700s. (For a ceramic portrait of James II, see the delftware dish 1952.0064.)