A rare Beilby enamelled opaque twist wine glass, circa 1765-70The tall waisted bell bowl painted in white with a towering pyramid or obelisk embellished with scrollwork and surmounted by an urn, in a landscape of shrubs and trees, faint traces of gilding to the rim, the double-series stem with a central gauze column encircled by an air thread and within two opaque white spiral threads, over a conical foot, 17.2cm highFootnotesProvenance Sotheby's, 10 February 1969, lot 170 Christie's, 23 May 1989, lot 223 Darell Thompson-Schwab Collection A virtually identical glass from the Peter Lazarus Collection, now in Bristol Museum and Art Gallery (inv. no.Na875), is illustrated by Geoffrey Wills, Glass (1972), p.28, pl.33 and was exhibited at the Laing Art Gallery, The Decorated Glasses of William and Mary Beilby 1761 to 1778 (1980), no.26.
A rare Beilby enamelled opaque twist wine glass, circa 1765-70The tall waisted bell bowl painted in white with a towering pyramid or obelisk embellished with scrollwork and surmounted by an urn, in a landscape of shrubs and trees, faint traces of gilding to the rim, the double-series stem with a central gauze column encircled by an air thread and within two opaque white spiral threads, over a conical foot, 17.2cm highFootnotesProvenance Sotheby's, 10 February 1969, lot 170 Christie's, 23 May 1989, lot 223 Darell Thompson-Schwab Collection A virtually identical glass from the Peter Lazarus Collection, now in Bristol Museum and Art Gallery (inv. no.Na875), is illustrated by Geoffrey Wills, Glass (1972), p.28, pl.33 and was exhibited at the Laing Art Gallery, The Decorated Glasses of William and Mary Beilby 1761 to 1778 (1980), no.26.
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