SOLD! for $11,050.00.
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- High Estimate: $900.00
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Four (4) blown, cut and engraved glass tumblers, 18th century. Each decorated with swags and stars and an oval cartouche with the initials JM for Jacob Motte (1700-1770), Charleston, South Carolina city treasurer and wealthy land owner, or his son Jacob Motte II (1730-1781). 2 1/2″ H, 2 3/8″ diam. at top. Possibly Irish, exported for use in America, c. 1760.
PROVENANCE: By descent in the historic Pinckney family of Runnymede Plantation, South Carolina. Note: Jacob Motte Jr.”s wife was Rebecca Brewton, sister of Frances Brewton Pinckney (wife of Col. Charles Pinckney).
CONDITION: 1 with small internal scratch-like flaw; a couple of scattered tiny fleabites to feet, a few scattered tiny bubbles/flaws in the making; 1 with two tiny flakes (1/4″ and 1/16″ to underside).
