Ireland and the Williamite War - Battle of the Boyne, an Iri...

Hammer

£300

Ireland and the Williamite War - Battle of the Boyne, an Irish commemorative wine glass, The Glorious Memory of King William/No Surrender, Boyne 1st July 1690, T.C./S.C., the inscribed trumpet-shaped bowl etched and engraved with an equestrian portrait of William III, girdle-capped stem, domed circular foot, pontil mark, 16cm high, dated 1690 It is thought that this glass marks the bicentenary of the Battle of the Boyne, and was engraved by Franz Tieze (1842-1932). He was a Bohemian-born engraver who worked in the flint glass factory of the Pugh Brothers in Dublin from 1865 to 1910, although he also engraved 18th century wine glasses.