Wine glass

A wine glass with a trumpet-shaped bowl, a stem with a angular knop above a ball knop (both hollow) and a folded foot with a pontil mark. It is wheel-engraved with a merchantman with a lateen sail on the mizen mast and a sprit topmast. Below is inscribed: 'SALUS PATRIAE' [mainstay of the country]. The glass is English with Dutch engraving.

Object Details

ID: GGG0188
Type: Wine glass
Display location: Not on display
Date made: circa 1725
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Jacobs Collection
Measurements: Overall: 175 x 85 mm