Drinking Glass
CultureEnglish
Dateca. 1715
MediumLead glass
DimensionsOverall: 9 1/4 × 4 inches (23.5 × 10.16 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: the Lillian M. Diveley Fund
Object numberF90-30
On View
On viewGallery Location
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DescriptionThe knop contains an English threepenny piece dated 1692 bearing the profile portraits of William III and Mary II.Gallery LabelThe knop (the bulbous disk between the bowl and the stem) of this glass
contains an embedded English coin with profile portraits of Protestant rulers
King William and Queen Mary. The glass dates from around the same time
that the English crown shifted from their successor, the deceased Queen
Anne, to their German Hanoverian cousins instead of Mary and Anne’s
exiled Catholic half-brother, James Stuart. The maker and purchaser of the
glass thus indicated their allegiances to the political status quo.
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