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A Beilby polychrome enamelled Masonic armorial firing tumbler, circa 1765-70
15 November 2017, 10:30 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £20,000 inc. premium
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A Beilby polychrome enamelled Masonic armorial firing tumbler, circa 1765-70
The waisted form with a flared rim and a solid 'firing' foot, painted in colours with the Freemasons' Arms within a rococo scrollwork cartouche with pendant white foliage beneath and coloured Masonic insignia suspended from foliate scrolls at the top, the reverse of the tumbler with further Masonic devices painted in colours among delicate white foliage, the rim with traces of gilding, 8.1cm high
Footnotes
Provenance
With Howard Phillips Glass Ltd
Acquired from Enid Phillips, 1997
Julius and Ann Kaplan Collection
Literature
Martine Newby, Eighteenth Century English Glass From the Collection of Julius and Ann Kaplan (1998), fig 18
Seven tumblers of this type have so far been recorded, including a pair in the Museum of Freemasonry at Freemasons Hall, London. One is illustrated by L.M. Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), p.329, pl.1070. Another from the Henry Brown Collection was exhibited by Delomosne, Gilding the Lily (1978), cat. no.65. One from the James Hall Collection was sold by Bonhams 17 December 2008, lot 129, while another, from the Hamilton-Clements Collection, was sold by Sotheby's 15 May 1930, lot 92. An example is now in the Durrington Collection, formerly exhibited at Broadfield House, see Roger Dodsworth's catalogue (2006), p.36, no.30.
A separate set of Beilby enamelled firing tumblers with coloured Masonic emblems bears the date 1768 in white enamel. A set of four survived together and was sold by Christie's 7 July 2005, lot 787. One of these was then sold by Bonhams 16 December 2009, lot 59.