Jim Peake
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Lot 48
A fine Beilby enamelled opaque twist wine glass with a pastoral scene, circa 1765
19 November 2025, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge£4,000 - £6,000
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A fine Beilby enamelled opaque twist wine glass with a pastoral scene, circa 1765
The round funnel bowl finely painted in opaque white with a pastoral landscape featuring two sheep, one recumbent looking over its shoulder at its companion standing behind, a tree and wooden fence to the left and a leafy plant to the right, the rim with faint traces of gilding, on a double-series stem containing a pair of heavy opaque white spiral threads around a lace twist, over a conical foot, 15.2cm high
Footnotes
Provenance
Peter Lazarus Collection, Christie's, 26 November 1991, lot 134
Exhibited
Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, loan no.286
Pastoral scenes such as this were popular subjects and the present glass relates closely to examples painted with shepherds, shepherdesses and sometimes with a goats among sheep. See those illustrated by Delomosne and Son, Gilding the Lily (1978), p.44, no.74, all three of which were most recently sold by Bonhams on 1 May 2013, lot 68 and 21 June 2022, lots 110 and 111 respectively. A very similar glass to the present lot is illustrated by James Rush, A Beilby Odyssey (1987), p.138, no.101 and was sold as part of the Peter Meyer Collection by Bonhams on 1 May 2013, lot 71. A glass with an identical scene on an ogee bowl from the Darell Thompson-Schwab Collection was sold by Bonhams on 30 November 2022, lot 131, and another from the Sir Bernard Eckstein Collection is in the Ashmolean Museum (inv. no.WA1948.156.47).