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The Kitson Wineglass: a very fine armorial wine glass from the Beilby workshop, circa 1765 image 1
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Lot 104

The Kitson Wineglass: a very fine armorial wine glass from the Beilby workshop, circa 1765

Fine Glass and British Ceramics
15 November 2017, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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The Kitson Wineglass: a very fine armorial wine glass from the Beilby workshop, circa 1765

With a round funnel bowl, enamelled in polychrome in yellow, red, white and black, with a rococo scroll cartouche bearing the arms of Kitson, the shield with three white fish against a black ground below a rich yellow panel, the motto beneath in red on a white ribbon 'Cassis: Tutissima: Virtus', the crest of a unicorn head in profile painted on the reverse of the bowl, on a double series opaque twist stem with a central corkscrew encircled by a pair of multi-ply spiral bands, 14.4cm high

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Provenance
With Howard Phillipa, 3 June 1969 (£650)
Oliver N. Wilkinson, and by descent

This important glass was one of a pair sold by Howard Phillips in 1969 (The companion glass was noted as being damaged). The arms are of Kitson of Hengrave Hall, Suffolk or Bishopwearmouth, Durham.

It is interesting to note the problems that the Beilbys encountered when applying certain colours. The black enamel proved particularly troublesome and here it has reacted in much the same way as appears on the glasses made by Beilby for John Thomas, the Bishop of Rochester. The Thomas glasses feature a coat of arms in the same palette as the present lot, including white foliate sprigs on either side of the shield (see Sotheby's sale 19 December 2002, lot 60). Striations in the bowl and a slight distortion in the foot are further evidence of the difficulties the Beilbys experienced when subjecting their glasses to a kiln firing.

O.N. Wilkinson was the author of "Old Glass" and he had a number of Beilby glasses in his collection. Most were sold on his death in 1985, while this glass and the following lot were retained in his family.

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