An armorial wine glass c.1765

An armorial wine glass c.1765, the drawn trumpet bowl probably engraved in the 19th century with the crest of a lion rampant, emerging from brick battlements and holding an axe, raised on a double series opaque twist stem, 16.3cm.

The crest on this glass appears to be for Sir Richard Quain, 1st Baronet, of 67 Harley Street London. He was a specialist in disorders of the heart, a member of both the Garrick Club and the Athenaeum, and was appointed physician extraordinary to Queen Victoria in 1891.