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A fine Beilby enamelled beer decanter and stopper, circa 1765
15 November 2017, 10:30 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £4,750 inc. premium
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A fine Beilby enamelled beer decanter and stopper, circa 1765
Of 'sugarloaf' shape with a narrow cylindrical neck and disc stopper cut with facets, enamelled with a rococo label hung from a chain, the scrollwork cartouche painted in opaque turquoise-blue and white, inscribed 'BEER.', a spray of hops hanging beneath and delicate foliage issuing from either side of the label, the reverse of the decanter painted with an ear of barley, a band of scrollwork and a distinctive winged insect painted in white on the neck, 28cm high (minor abrasion to the faceted stopper) (2)
Footnotes
Provenance
Christie's sale 7 June 1988, lot 38
With Mallett & Son, February 1992
Julius and Ann Kaplan Collection
Literature
Jo Marshall, Glass Source Book (1990), p.90, no.1
Christopher Sheppard and John Smith, From the Restoration to the Regency (1990), p.74
Martine Newby, Eighteenth Century English Glass From the Collection of Julius and Ann Kaplan (1998), fig 13
Andy McConnell, The Decanter (2004), p.135, pl.192
Most sugarloaf decanters enamelled by Beilby are recorded just in opaque white. The addition of turquoise-blue within the scrollwork cartouche is rarely seen on such decanters. An almost identical example with similar colouring was sold by Bonhams 15 June 2011, lot 101. Another also very similar but enamelled only in white enamel is in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, illustrated by Robert Charleston, English Glass (1984), pl.41c. A remarkable large magnum beer decanter by Beilby in white with additional gilding was in the A.C. Hubbard Jr. Collection sold by Bonhams 30 November 2011, lot 141.