A RARE DIAMOND POINT ENGRAVED JACOBITE GLASS Circa 1745A RARE DIAMOND POINT ENGRAVED JACOBITE GLASSCirca 1745The bell-shaped bowl on a plain stem and conical foot, the bowl inscribed around the rim in diamond point 'God Bless Prince Charles & Down with the Rump', the foot engraved "P Charles, P#C# and I R B", 16.5 cm highProvenanceSotheby's, 14 April 1992, lot 71. £2,860The Peter Lole CollectionNotesThis item is a rare example of a diamond point engraved Jacobite glass and is related to the celebrated Amen glasses. The lightness of the engraving on the rim of the bowl suggests it was intended to be disguised.There is documentary evidence for the toast "Down with the Rump" being used amongst Jacobites in the period 1745-53. There is for example, in the Manchester Magazine, December 13th 1748, an account of a riot in which Jacobite huntsmen used this slogan.A saltglaze stoneware mug, sold by Bonhams on 2 June 2004, lot 124 was inscribed 'Princes's Charles's Healt Down with the Rump'. Robin Nicholson, in an article on 'Engraved Jacobite Glasses' for The Magazine Antiques, June 2003, cites an Oxford newspaper of 1753 where an imaginary account of a Jacobite club meeting is given: '....The Society being met and the cut Glasses representing the Figure of the Young Chevalier drest in Plaid being brought in, a Bottle to each Member was coiled for. The following Toasts were then proposed from the Chair and drank round by the Company: The King, the Prince, the Duke, Speedy and Happy, down with the Rump, Damnation to Hanover, Optima Dido and many others'.