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Lot 34*

A fine Beilby enamelled opaque twist wine glass, circa 1765-70

15 November 2017, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A fine Beilby enamelled opaque twist wine glass, circa 1765-70

The rounded funnel bowl well-painted in opaque white with a shepherd boy playing a pipe or recorder, the young man seated on a stone block at the foot of a tree watched by his dog, two sheep also on the simple vignette, with traces of gilding to the rim, the double series opaque twist stem with an eighteen-ply spiral band encircling a pair of spiral threads, 15.3cm high

Footnotes

Provenance
With Asprey's
Julius and Ann Kaplan Collection

Literature
Martine Newby, Eighteenth Century English Glass From the Collection of Julius and Ann Kaplan (1998), fig 7

It is interesting to compare the decoration on this wine glass with the drawing by William Beilby included in this sale as lot 41 where a closely related seated figure is included.

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