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A rare pair of Beilby enamelled wine or cordial glasses, circa 1765
21 May 2014, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £2,250 inc. premium
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A rare pair of Beilby enamelled wine or cordial glasses, circa 1765
The trumpet bowls painted in opaque white with trailing fruiting vines and a pendant sprig of fruit and leaves below a gilt rim, set on a multiple spiral opaque twist stem and a conical foot, 17.7cm and 18cm high (gilding typically rubbed, one glass with filled chip in footrim) (2)
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Whilst Beilby enamelled glasses painted with fruiting vines are not uncommon, it is rare to find such examples painted with fruiting sprigs such as this. The subject is likely to relate to a type of fruit cordial which may have been added to the wine to create a punch. It is not possible to certainly identify the fruit painted here, but their small size suggests that they are probably sloes. A near identical glass was sold by Christie's London, 20 February 2013, lot 667. Similar glasses painted with fruiting vines are illustrated by James Rush, The Ingenious Beilbys (1973), p. 47, cat. 27, and by L. M. Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), p. 197, fig. 569.