Cordial glass
(c. 1730-1750)
Medium
glass (wheel-engraved)
Measurements
17.5 × 7.5 cm diameter
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased with funds donated by Elizabeth Morgan, 2018
Gallery location
17th & 18th Century Decorative Arts & Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International
About this work
This glass is a rare example of an anti-Jacobite glass. The inscription on the glass, ‘The Ever Glorious Memory’, refers to King William III. He defeated James II at the Battle of the Boyne in Ireland on 1 July 1690, ensuring continued Protestant rule, or the Protestant Ascendancy, in the majority Catholic Ireland. Protestant Irish ‘Orange’ lodges drank toasts to the memory of King William in much the same way as the Jacobites toasted the Stuart monarchs.