The round funnel bowl painted in opaque white with a long-tailed 'fancy bird', possibly a peahen, one of its legs resting upon a ball, a tree to one side, an insect in flight to the reverse, on a double-series stem containing a pair of heavy spiral threads encircling a gauze corkscrew, over a conical foot, 14.8cm high

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Provenance
With Delomosne and Son, 20 March 1982

An identical example was sold by Bonhams on 19 May 2010, lot 26. Another from the Jeffrey Rose Collection was sold by Sotheby's on 6 March 1978, lot 88 and is illustrated by Terence Woodfield, Beilby Enamelled Glass, in The Antique Dealer and Collectors Guide (September 1983), front cover. For two glasses painted with the same subject on ogee bowls see James Rush, The Ingenious Beilbys (1973), p.84, pl.44b and L M Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), p.338, no.1,104. Two further glasses with this subject on ogee bowls were sold by Bonhams, one from the Crabtree Collection on 16 December 2009, lot 68 and the other from the Meyer Collection on 1 May 2013, lot 69.

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