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A Beilby enamelled wine glass with a peacock on a balustrade, circa 1765

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

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A Beilby enamelled wine glass with a peacock on a balustrade, circa 1765

The ogee bowl with a partly deceptive base, painted in opaque white with a peacock standing proudly on a stone plinth beside a Chinoiserie fence or balustrade, a small urn on the opposite plinth, a flying bird, perhaps a peahen on the reserve of the bowl, the finely-constructed opaque twist stem set with a multi-ply corkscrew encircled by a pair of spiral threads, on a heavy foot, 14.6cm high

Footnotes

Provenance
With Maureen Thompson, June 1988
Julius and Ann Kaplan Collection

Literature
Martine Newby, Eighteenth Century English Glass From the Collection of Julius and Ann Kaplan (1998), fig 9

A popular motif from the age of rococo, the peacock can also be seen on a Beilby enamelled tumbler, see lot 105 in this sale.

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