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A rare Beilby enamelled moulded-stem sweetmeat glass, circa 1765-70

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

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A rare Beilby enamelled moulded-stem sweetmeat glass, circa 1765-70

The lipped double ogee bowl gilded at the rim and enamelled in white with a band of feathered scrolls linking four starbursts, the moulded eight-sided pedestal stem with diamond studs at the shoulder, containing an elongated tear and set between double mereses, on a domed and folded foot, 16.7cm high

Footnotes

Provenance
Sir Hugh Dawson, Bart
Bert Amador
With Mallett & Son Ltd
Julius and Ann Kaplan

Literature
L.M. Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1971/1986), nos. 783/1118
Delomosne & Son Ltd, Gilding the Lily Exhibition (1978), fig. 73
Robert Charleston, English Glass and the Glass Used in England (1984), pl.41d
Sheppard and Smith, From the Restoration to the Regency (1990), no. 108
Martine Newby, Eighteenth Century English Glass From the Collection of Julius and Ann Kaplan (1998), fig 1 and front cover illustration

This is the only sweetmeat glass so far recorded with Beilby enamelled decoration. The enamelled border decoration is also found on wine glasses, see the example in the A.C. Hubbard Jr. Collection, sold by Bonhams 30 November 2011, lot 143.

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