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A Beilby enamelled wine glass with a fox-hunting scene, circa 1765 image 1
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Lot 23*

A Beilby enamelled wine glass with a fox-hunting scene, circa 1765

15 November 2017, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A Beilby enamelled wine glass with a fox-hunting scene, circa 1765

The ogee bowl painted in opaque white with a huntsman on a galloping horse pursuing two hounds that have chased a fox over a stile, a spreading willow tree at the edge of the vignette, the double series opaque twist stem with a pair of spiral tapes encircled by a pair of four-ply spiral bands, the rim with faint traces of gilding, 14.2cm high (a minute nick to the footrim edge only)

Footnotes

Provenance
With Asprey's, January 1993
Julius and Ann Kaplan Collection

Literature
Martine Newby, Eighteenth Century English Glass From the Collection of Julius and Ann Kaplan (1998), fig 4

This glass was purchased together with lot 25 in this sale and these probably came from a single set with different sporting subjects. For other Beilby glasses with fox hunting scenes see L.M. Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1971/1986), nos. 403 and 749/1077 and 1078.

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