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Lot 154*

An enamelled Masonic opaque-twist firing glass, circa 1765

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

£1,500 - £2,000

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An enamelled Masonic opaque-twist firing glass, circa 1765

Possibly by Anthony Taylor, the ogee bowl painted in a limited palette of white with red highlights of Masonic emblems, set on a short double-series stem and solid terraced disc firing foot, 10.3cm high

Footnotes

Literature:
Lloyd (2000), p.78, pl.99(a) and p.77

See the plain stem example with almost identical decoration sold in these Rooms, The Chris Crabtree Collection, 19 May 2010, lot 28. Further examples exist in the literature, their limited palette of colours and naiive execution suggesting a hand different from that of the Beilbys. They are closely linked to a group of Jacobite wine glasses painted in colours with the portrait of Prince Charles Edward Stuart. For a fuller discussion of this rare group of glasses and the work of Anthony Taylor in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, see Simon Cottle, 'The Other Beilbys: British Enamelled Glass of the Eighteenth Century', Apollo (October 1986), pp.315-327.

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