Jim Peake
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Lot 51
An important Beilby enamelled opaque twist wine glass with a foxhunting scene, circa 1765
19 November 2025, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge£7,000 - £10,000
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An important Beilby enamelled opaque twist wine glass with a foxhunting scene, circa 1765
The ogee bowl finely painted in opaque white with a huntsman on horseback galloping through the countryside with two hounds in pursuit of a fox, the unfortunate animal looking over its shoulder as it jumps a wooden fence, a gnarled tree behind them, on a double-series stem with a pair of seven- and eight-ply spiral bands around a pair of heavy opaque white spiral tapes, over a conical foot, 14.7cm high
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Provenance
Lymbery Collection, Sotheby's, 10 February 1986, lot 52
With Maureen Thompson, June 1986
This remarkable glass relates closely to sets of glasses similarly enamelled with sports and pastimes. A glass from such a set decorated with an identical hunting scene to that on the present lot is illustrated by James Rush, The Ingenious Beilbys (1973), p.84, fig.44(a) and by L M Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), p.332, no.1077. A virtually identical glass to the present lot was sold by Christie's as part of the Sir Hugh and Lady Dawson Collection on 14 June 1983, lot 102 and is illustrated by both Delomosne and Son, Gilding the Lily (1978), p.45, no.75 and Bickerton (1986), p.332, no.1078. See also the example in the Liang Art Gallery (inv. no.TWCMS:G764) illustrated by E Barrington Haynes, Glass Through the Ages (1948), pl.36e. A glass with a slightly different foxhunting scene from the Julius and Ann Kaplan Collection was sold by Bonhams on 15 November 2017, lot 23, and came from the same original set as that painted with a wildfowling scene in the same sale, lot 25. For a goblet enamelled with a very similar scene, see Joseph Bles, Rare English Glasses of the 17th and 18th Centuries (1925), pp.184-5, pl.63, no.92.