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c. 1745, with later engraving?

Goblet

Artist/maker unknown

ā€œHell fireā€ clubs were the most notorious of the clubs that proliferated in eighteenth-century England and Ireland. With drinking as a central activity, members gathered to exchange political, literary, and artistic ideas. James Worsdale, whose name appears on this glass, was appointed ā€œMaster of the Revelsā€ in the Dublin Hell Fire Club in 1741.

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Artist/maker unknown, Goblet, c. 1745, with later engraving? | Philadelphia Museum of Art