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A rare Beilby enamelled opaque-twist ale glass, circa 1765
30 November 2011, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £12,500 inc. premium
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A rare Beilby enamelled opaque-twist ale glass, circa 1765
The tall ogee bowl painted in colours with the Order of the Thistle surmounted by a crown, inscribed in opaque-white below Nemo me Impune Lacefsit. below, the reverse with a butterfly, set on a double-series stem and conical foot, 19.7cm high (footrim chips)
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Provenance:
Anon. sale, Christie's, 18 May 1999, lot 319 where according to the catalogue it is erroneously recorded as the example which is now in the George Lorimer Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Literature:
Lloyd (2000), p.75, pl.93 and p.77
The almost identical example in the Lorimer Collection bears the provenance of Mrs. G.F. Thomas Collection, The Doune, Elstree, Hertfordshire, sold Sotheby's, 11 June 1936, lot 38 (illustrated by Simon Cottle 'The Other Beilbys: British enamelled glass of The 18th Century', Apollo, 1986, p.322, pl.IX).
A further unrecorded Beilby enamelled tumbler bearing the same crest and motto has recently emerged. Obviously from the same set as the present lot and measuring 10cm high, it is also painted on the reverse with a leafy spray in white enamel, a butterfly in flight to one side. A tumbler of similar size and form, painted with the same floral subject in white enamel, is illustrated by James Rush, A Beilby Odyssey (1986), p.97, pl.59, in the City of Bristol Museum, inscribed AND the Coal=trade.
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