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A Beilby enamelled polychrome armorial goblet, circa 1765
15 November 2017, 10:30 GMT
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A Beilby enamelled polychrome armorial goblet, circa 1765
The generous bucket bowl finely painted in colours with the coat of arms of Anderson impaling Consett, within a rococo cartouche in purple, pink and cream, the arms flanked by green palm fronds and with delicate foliage hanging beneath, the reverse with a branch of fruiting vine in opaque white, traces of gilding to the rim, on a double series opaque twist stem with a loose multiple spiral cable encircled by one eight-ply and one seven-ply spiral band, 19cm high (the bowl broken and repaired)
Footnotes
Provenance
Christie's sale, 26 November 1991, lot 133
Julius and Ann Kaplan Collection
Literature
James Rush, A Beilby Odyssey (1987), pp.82-83, no.47
Martine Newby, Eighteenth Century English Glass From the Collection of Julius and Ann Kaplan (1998), fig 17
This goblet undoubtedly celebrates the marriage on 11 December 1755, when Matthew Consett married Anna Anderson at All Saints Church in Newcastle. The glass was created at least a decade later and rather curiously places the arms of Consett on the right hand side of the cartouche, in the position usually occupied by the wife's arms rather than the husband's. Beilby was an armorial specialist and would have known this is not heraldically correct. In her catalogue of the Kaplan collection, Martine Newby suggests this could be an indication that Anna Anderson was an heiress and that her husband took her name.