A Balustroid wine glass , having a drawn trumpet bowl engraved with King William on horseback with the inscription THE GLORIOUS MEMORY OF KING WILLIAM, the reverse having BOYNE 1st JULY 1690, over a plain stem with collars to the top and bottom, all on a conical folded foot,

Height 6 5/8th ins 16.8 cm

Provenance Delomosne & Son Ltd , Seton Veitch Collection 25c Publishd in 2006

There is the belief that these typically Irish glasses were engraved c 1740 for the 50th anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne, illustrated with other glasses attributed to Ireland ,

A superb rare glass in perfect original condition