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Lot 155*

An enamelled and gilt facet-stem wine glass, second half 18th century

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

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An enamelled and gilt facet-stem wine glass, second half 18th century

The drawn ovoid bowl painted in a limited palette of white and red with two portrait medallions (thought to be Cardinal Henry of York) suspended from leaf swags below a gilt-edge rim, the short stem cut with diamond facets, conical foot, 12.5cm high

Footnotes

Provenance:
The Robert Lymbery Collection, sold at Sotheby's, 7 May 2002, lot 157

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

A set of six of these glasses was sold at Sotheby's, 3 March 1998, lot 88 from the Royal Brierley Crystal Collection.

For a full discussion of these glasses, see Simon Cottle, 'The Other Beilbys', Apollo (1986) where the decorator has been considered to be a Scottish enameller, Anthony Taylor, formerly of Newcastle upon Tyne.

It has been suggested that the portrait medallion may represent Cardinal Henry Steuart, the Jacobite Duke of York, the younger brother of Prince Charles Edward Steuart, the Young Pretender. Born in 1725, he took Holy Orders in the Roman Catholic Church and became known as Cardinal of York after the Pope had 'raised' him. When his older brother died without legitimate heirs in 1788, Henry succeeded to the Steuart claim to the English throne and was recognised as King Henry IX by the Jacobites until his death in 1807.

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