Jim Peake
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Lot 88
A rare Beilby polychrome enamelled wine glass, circa 1765
20 November 2019, 10:30 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £7,562.50 inc. premium
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A rare Beilby polychrome enamelled wine glass, circa 1765
The cup-shaped bowl painted with a border of fruiting vine in opaque white, the leaves in opaque turquoise-green, traces of gilding to the rim, the plain stem with central swelling knop, on a conical foot, 15.5cm high
Footnotes
Provenance
Charles Peter Craufurd de Wesselow Collection
With William MacAdam, Edinburgh, 30 May 1993
Basil Jefferies Collection
Illustrated by L M Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), p.343, no.1119, and by Derek Davis and Keith Middlemas, Coloured Glass (1968), p.60. A similar wine glass almost certainly from the same set from the Julius and Ann Kaplan Collection was sold by Bonhams on 15 November 2017, lot 38, illustrated by Martine Newby, Eighteenth Century English Glass (1998), fig.15. A further example is in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, accession no. C.82-1975, illustrated in the catalogue (1978), p.99, no.244. See also the example sold by Bonhams on 4 June 2008, lot 316.
