Description
An Interesting Collection of Four Horn Beakers. Three 18th Century examples, probably American, each with contemporary naively painted decoration; one depicting a bird perched on a branch with flowering tendrils and a suspended red heart, 5” (13 cm) tall. The second naively painted with floral decoration and a suspended heart, 4” (10 cm) tall. The third painted with the head and shoulders profile of a gentleman wearing a red military hat and incised above ”Wolfe Tavern” and under ”1762”, 3” (8 cm) tall (James Wolfe was a British Army officer best remembered as a Major general whose troops defeated the French at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in Quebec in 1759). . The forth beaker being a 19th Century piece of slightly oval section with a pouring lip to the rim and incised on one side ”J*Turner/1869”.