Jim Peake
Head of Department
Lot 49
An exceptional Beilby enamelled opaque twist wine glass with a boating scene, circa 1765
19 November 2025, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge£7,000 - £10,000
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An exceptional Beilby enamelled opaque twist wine glass with a boating scene, circa 1765
The round funnel bowl finely painted in opaque white with three figures wearing pointed hats seated in a boat, probably a coble, two rowing and the other at the stern, flanked by islands of shrubs and trees, on a double-series stem with a pair of opaque white spiral tapes encircled by an eleven-ply spiral band, over a conical foot, 14.1cm high
Footnotes
Provenance
Christie's, 23 May 1989, lot 221
Boating scenes on Beilby enamelled glass are exceptionally rare, and the boat is likely a Northumberland or Scottish coble, common on the Tyne and Scottish borders. Only one other example would appear to be recorded, which depicts two figures in a boat towing a tug-net, used for salmon fishing. This is illustrated by L M Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), p.333, no.1082 and was sold by Bonhams as part of the Julius and Ann Kaplan Collection on 15 November 2017, lot 24.
We are grateful to Simon Cottle for his assistance in the cataloguing of this lot.