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Lot 146*

A rare Beilby enamelled opaque-twist wine glass, circa 1765

30 November 2011, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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A rare Beilby enamelled opaque-twist wine glass, circa 1765

The ogee bowl painted on each side with a peacock and peahen in opaque-white, both standing on leaf scroll in turquoise, traces of gilding to the rim, set on a double-series stem and conical foot, 16cm high

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Provenance:
Anon., sale, Christie's, 2 November 1982, lot 109
Anon., sale, Christie's, December 2000, lot 122

Compare with that illustrated by Francis Buckley, Old English Glass (1925), pl.XXXV (top centre) and James Rush, A Beilby Odyssey (1987), p.80, pl.44. Another, in the Pilkington Glass Museum, St.Helen's, is illustrated by L.M.Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), p.338, no.1,107. See also the goblet, from the James Hall Collection, sold in these Rooms, lot 130.

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