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Lot 69

A Beilby enamelled wine glass, circa 1765

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

Sold for £1,750 inc. premium

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A Beilby enamelled wine glass, circa 1765

The ogee bowl with a slightly deceptive base, enamelled in opaque white with a Fancy Bird, possibly a peahen, one of its legs raised upon a ball, in a landscape vignette with a tree to one side, an insect in flight on the reverse, on a double series opaque twist stem containing a pair of heavy spiral threads encircling a gauze corkscrew, 14.7cm high (the foot chipped)

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Provenance: Peter Meyer Collection
Sotheby's sale 1 November 1982, lot 43, bought by Maureen Thompson

This was one of a pair of similar glasses offered in the above sale. The companion glass was subsequently sold in these rooms 16 December 2009, lot 68. Another very similar glass was also sold in these rooms 19 May 2010

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