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Lot 235

4 Jacob Motte SC 18th c. Glass Tumblers

Estimate: $700 - $900

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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).

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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).