Jim Peake
Head of Department
Lot 45
An attractive Beilby enamelled opaque twist wine glass, circa 1765
19 November 2025, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge£2,000 - £3,000
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An attractive Beilby enamelled opaque twist wine glass, circa 1765
The ogee bowl finely painted in opaque white with a continuous undulating border comprising three different flowers below the rim, including a carnation and honeysuckle, the rim with faint traces of gilding to the rim, on a double-series stem containing a pair of heavy opaque white spiral threads outside a gauze, over a conical foot, 14.1cm high
Footnotes
Provenance
With Maureen Thompson, June 1987
A similar border occurs on a wine glass inscribed 'ELIZ:th SMITH' in the Victoria and Albert Museum, illustrated by James Rush, The Ingenious Beilbys (1973), p.57, pl.33(a). See also the wine glass in Corning Museum of Glass, illustrated by James Rush, A Beilby Odyssey (1987), p.71, pl.33(c).