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A Beilby enamelled wine glass painted with a shepherdess, circa 1765 image 1
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Lot 68

A Beilby enamelled wine glass painted with a shepherdess, circa 1765

1 May 2013, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A Beilby enamelled wine glass painted with a shepherdess, circa 1765

The rounded funnel bowl finely painted in opaque white with a shepherdess seated by a fence and tree, holding her crook and watching three sheep in front of her, on a double series opaque twist stem with a pair of spiral threads encircled by a pair of eight-ply spiral bands, 15.2cm high

Footnotes

Provenance: Peter Meyer Collection
Frances L Dickson Collection
Christie's sale, 14 June 1983, lot 110 (together with the previous lot)

Literature: Illustrated by W A Thorpe, History of English and Irish Glass (1929),pl. CXXXII, fig.4
Illustrated by L M Bickerton, 18th Century English Drinking Glasses (1971), fig.752

Exhibited: Delomosne & Son Ltd, Gilding the Lily, 1978, no.74

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