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Lot 77

A Beilby enamelled opaque-twist wine glass, circa 1765

21 May 2014, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

£3,000 - £4,000

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A Beilby enamelled opaque-twist wine glass, circa 1765

The round funnel bowl painted in opaque white with fruiting vine and a small bird perched upon further fruit, set on a double series opaque twist stem containing a pair of spiral threads encircling a gauze corkscrew, on a conical foot, 14.6cm high

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Provenance: The Tatton Hewetson Collection
Anon. sale, Christie's London, 23 November 1993, lot 95
Anon. sale, Christie's London, 25 March 1991, lot 83

A faceted-stem wine glass with similar decoration is in the collection of Mompesson House, Wiltshire, National Trust inv. no. 723896, and is illustrated by James Rush, The Ingenious Beilbys, p. 56, pl. 31.

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