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Lot 38*

A rare Beilby polychrome enamelled wine glass, circa 1765-70

15 November 2017, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A rare Beilby polychrome enamelled wine glass, circa 1765-70

With a cup-shaped bowl enamelled with a border of fruiting vine in opaque white, the leaves in opaque turquoise-blue, the rim with traces of gilding, the plain stem with a central knop and on a heavy conical foot, 15.3cm high (air blister in base of bowl)

Footnotes

Provenance
With Asprey's, 1987
Julius and Ann Kaplan Collection

Literature
L.M. Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), p.343, no.1119
Martine Newby, Eighteenth Century English Glass From the Collection of Julius and Ann Kaplan (1998), fig 15

A similar wine glass almost certainly from the same set was sold by Bonhams 4 June 2008, lot 316. Another is illustrated by Derek Davis and Keith Middlemas, Coloured Glass (1968), p.60. A further example is in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, catalogue (1978), p.99, no.244.

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