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A rare Beilby enamelled sugar bowl, circa 1765 image 1
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Lot 36*

A rare Beilby enamelled sugar bowl, circa 1765

15 November 2017, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A rare Beilby enamelled sugar bowl, circa 1765

The heavily-formed cup-shaped bowl set on a flattened collar above a domed terraced foot, painted on both sides in white enamel with a rustic landscape vignette, one with a shepherd leaning on his crook watching two sheep and a goat, the other with four various sheep beside a tree, the rim with traces of gilding, 9.6cm high, 10cm maximum diam

Footnotes

Provenance
With Asprey's, January 1993
Julius and Ann Kaplan Collection

Literature
John P Smith, 100 British Glasses, Asprey's London (1985), no. 56
Martine Newby, Eighteenth Century English Glass From the Collection of Julius and Ann Kaplan (1998), fig 2 and front cover illustration

The companion sugar bowl, from the Jerome Strauss Collection now in the Corning Museum is incised with a collection or inventory number 273 on the base. The present lot bears number 274 lightly scratched under the foot. The Corning example is enamelled with an urn and an obelisk in landscape vignettes. No other sugar bowls are recorded with Beilby enamelling.

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