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Lot 153*

A rare Beilby enamelled airtwist deceptive firing or dram glass, circa 1765

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

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A rare Beilby enamelled airtwist deceptive firing or dram glass, circa 1765

The thick-walled round funnel bowl inscribed TEMPERANCE with leaf scroll above and below, the reverse with flower spray, all in opaque-white, set on a short multi-spiral stem and terraced thick conical firing foot, 10.4cm high

Footnotes

Provenance:
The Robert Lymbery Collection, sold at Sotheby's, 11 May 1999, lot 18

Literature:
James Rush, The Ingenious Beilbys (1973), p.142, pl.83
L.M.Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), p.347, pl.1134
Lloyd (2000), p.76, pls.96 and 97 and p.77

Exhibited:
1980, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 'The Decorated Glasses of William and Mary Beilby 1761 to 1778', cat. no.49
Loan, Laing Art Gallery, 1980-1999

Two very similar examples are to be found in the Glyn Vivian Art Gallery and Museum, Swansea and in the collection of Freemason's Hall, London.

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