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A Beilby enamelled wine glass with a Wildfowling scene, circa 1765
15 November 2017, 10:30 GMT
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A Beilby enamelled wine glass with a Wildfowling scene, circa 1765
The ogee bowl painted in opaque white with a standing sportsman in a smart frock coat, aiming his gun at a flock of four ducks startled by his hound, the vignette flanked by trees and vegetation, 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, 14.1cm high (small nick to the footrim)
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 3
A number of closely-related Beilby wine glasses are recorded, each showing a single figure shooting game-birds in flight. See for example Francis Buckley, A History of Old English Glass (1925), pl.XXXV, fig.3, L.M. Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1971/1986), nos.747/1079 and 1080, Ward Lloyd, A Wine Lover's Glasses, the A.C. Hubbard Jr. Collection (2000), p.72, pl.89, and Robert Charleston, English Glass (1984), pl. 41f. A further example with a wildfowling scene was sold by Christie's, 23 May 1989, lot 222 and another was exhibited by Delomosne & Son, Gilding the Lily (1978), p.45, fig.75. A tumbler dated 1768 with a similar figure is in the Durrington Collection, formerly exhibited at Broadfield House, see Roger Dodsworth's catalogue (2006), p.36, no.32.
A South Staffordshire opaque white glass flask depicting a similar scene, attributed to Haseldine and Beilby, is in the Kaplan Collection and is included as lot 39 in the present sale.