An exceptionally rare Beilby enamelled opaque twist marriage goblet, circa 1765The generous flared bucket bowl finely inscribed 'Health & Prosperity/ to the happy pair./ C C' in elaborate opaque white script, the reverse painted with a fruiting vine, the entwined stem issuing branches of leaves, tendrils and grapes, set on a double-series stem containing a pair of heavy opaque white spiral threads around a central gauze column, over a conical foot, 17.4cm highFootnotesProvenance Darell Thompson-Schwab Collection Whilst the identity of 'C C' or indeed 'the happy pair' to which this remarkable goblet refers remains unknown, we know that other glasses were certainly commissioned from the Beilby workshop to celebrate marriages, see for example the Surtees Marriage Glasses sold by Bonhams on 23 June 2021, lots 9-12 and the Thompson Wine Glass sold by Bonhams on 21 June 2022, lot 109.A bottle or caddy enamelled in virtually identical opaque white script with a very similar inscription reading 'How blest is the life of retirement. But yet more blest the Happy pair' on one side and 'S I To Mr Hutchinson. Stony gill. 1764' in capitals on the other, is in Torre Abbey, Torquay, illustrated by Geoffrey Wills, Antique Glass for Pleasure and Investment (1971), pl.6. Two goblets of related size and form painted with fruiting vine in a similar manner, but without inscriptions, are illustrated by James Rush, The Ingenious Beilbys (1973), p.70, no.30 and p.117, no.68a.
An exceptionally rare Beilby enamelled opaque twist marriage goblet, circa 1765The generous flared bucket bowl finely inscribed 'Health & Prosperity/ to the happy pair./ C C' in elaborate opaque white script, the reverse painted with a fruiting vine, the entwined stem issuing branches of leaves, tendrils and grapes, set on a double-series stem containing a pair of heavy opaque white spiral threads around a central gauze column, over a conical foot, 17.4cm highFootnotesProvenance Darell Thompson-Schwab Collection Whilst the identity of 'C C' or indeed 'the happy pair' to which this remarkable goblet refers remains unknown, we know that other glasses were certainly commissioned from the Beilby workshop to celebrate marriages, see for example the Surtees Marriage Glasses sold by Bonhams on 23 June 2021, lots 9-12 and the Thompson Wine Glass sold by Bonhams on 21 June 2022, lot 109.A bottle or caddy enamelled in virtually identical opaque white script with a very similar inscription reading 'How blest is the life of retirement. But yet more blest the Happy pair' on one side and 'S I To Mr Hutchinson. Stony gill. 1764' in capitals on the other, is in Torre Abbey, Torquay, illustrated by Geoffrey Wills, Antique Glass for Pleasure and Investment (1971), pl.6. Two goblets of related size and form painted with fruiting vine in a similar manner, but without inscriptions, are illustrated by James Rush, The Ingenious Beilbys (1973), p.70, no.30 and p.117, no.68a.
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