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A Beilby enamelled ale or mead glass decorated with a bee-skep, circa 1765
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A Beilby enamelled ale or mead glass decorated with a bee-skep, circa 1765
With a tall rounded funnel bowl, painted in opaque white with on one side a bee-skep or hive surrounded by flying bees, a leaf-scroll flourish below, the reverse with a flower and leaf spray, the tapering opaque twist stem set with a multiple spiral gauze encircled by a pair of narrow spiral threads, 19.4cm high
Footnotes
Provenance
With Sheppard and Cooper Ltd October 1992
Julius and Ann Kaplan Collection
Literature
Martine Newby, Eighteenth Century English Glass From the Collection of Julius and Ann Kaplan (1998), fig 11
A similar glass was exhibited by Delomosne & Son Ltd, Gilding the Lily Exhibition (1978), p.43, no. 70, also illustrated by W.A. Thorpe, History of English and Irish Glass (1929), pl. 82. Another in the Limbery Collection is illustrated by James Rush, A Beilby Odyssey (1987), p.61, pl. 19 and by L.M. Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1987), no.1108 and was sold by Sotheby's, 11 May 1999, lot 19. A further example is in the Victoria and Albert Museum while another from the Peter Meyer Collection was sold by Bonhams 1 May 2013, lot 66. An example with an elongated ogee bowl was in the James Hall Collection, sold by Bonhams 17 December 2008, lot 131. Related glasses of the same form are recorded with engraved bee skeps. It is likely that these glasses were not used for ale but instead were intended for drinking mead flavoured with honey.