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Lot 59*

A Beilby enamelled opaque twist wine glass, circa 1765

20 November 2019, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £828.75 inc. premium

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A Beilby enamelled opaque twist wine glass, circa 1765

The ogee bowl painted in opaque white with three floral and foliate swags, the double-series stem with two pairs of opaque white spiral threads encircled by a pair of five-ply spiral bands, over a conical foot, 14.9cm high

Footnotes

A very similar glass but with a round funnel bowl was sold by Bonhams on 15 December 2010, lot 55, and is illustrated by James Rush, the Ingenious Beilby's (1973), p.93, pl.51(b), where the decoration is attributed to Mary Beilby. Another glass with similar decoration but a different stem formation is illustrated by L M Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), p.220, fig.660.

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