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Lot 10

The Surtees Marriage glasses: a rare enamelled armorial wine glass from the Beilby workshop, circa 1769

23 June 2021, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £10,837.50 inc. premium

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The Surtees Marriage glasses: a rare enamelled armorial wine glass from the Beilby workshop, circa 1769

The ovoid bowl painted in polychrome with a rococo scrollwork cartouche enclosing the arms of Surtees, the shaped shield with a black and white ermine ground, containing a dark red canton bearing a white escutcheon, a yellow Ducal coronet issuing a plume of three white feathers to the reverse, set on a double-series opaque twist stem with a pair of nine-ply spiral bands encircling a multi-ply corkscrew, over a conical foot, 12.8cm high

Footnotes

Provenance
Commissioned for the marriage of Lieutenant Crosier Surtees (1739-1800) and Jane Surtees (1751-1825) on 12 September 1769
Thence by family descent to the present owner

See the footnote to lot 9.

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