A fine and rare Beilby enamelled opaque twist wine glass, circa 1765-70The generous round funnel bowl painted in opaque white with a charming pastoral scene depicting a shepherd playing a pipe, seated beside the stump of a tree before his dog and two sheep, a low fence to the right, faint traces of gilding to the rim edge, on a double-series stem containing a pair of heavy opaque white spiral tapes encircled by an eighteen-ply spiral band, over a conical foot, 15.7cm highFootnotesProvenance With Delomosne and Son Henry Fox Collection, Bonhams, 8 December 2004, lot 95 Chris Crabtree Collection, Bonhams, 16 December 2009, lot 67 Darell Thompson-Schwab Collection This delightful glass is paralleled by a similar example from the Kaplan Collection was sold by Bonhams on 15 November 2017, lot 34 and is illustrated by Martine Newby, Eighteenth Century English Glass from the Collection of Julius and Ann Kaplan (1998), fig.7. A watercolour signed by William Beilby which depicts a comparable scene is illustrated by Robert Charleston, 'William and Thomas Beilby as Drawing Masters', Glass Circle Journal, Vol.6 (1989), pp.20-31, fig.15 and was sold by Bonhams as part of the Kaplan Collection on 15 November 2017, lot 41.
A fine and rare Beilby enamelled opaque twist wine glass, circa 1765-70The generous round funnel bowl painted in opaque white with a charming pastoral scene depicting a shepherd playing a pipe, seated beside the stump of a tree before his dog and two sheep, a low fence to the right, faint traces of gilding to the rim edge, on a double-series stem containing a pair of heavy opaque white spiral tapes encircled by an eighteen-ply spiral band, over a conical foot, 15.7cm highFootnotesProvenance With Delomosne and Son Henry Fox Collection, Bonhams, 8 December 2004, lot 95 Chris Crabtree Collection, Bonhams, 16 December 2009, lot 67 Darell Thompson-Schwab Collection This delightful glass is paralleled by a similar example from the Kaplan Collection was sold by Bonhams on 15 November 2017, lot 34 and is illustrated by Martine Newby, Eighteenth Century English Glass from the Collection of Julius and Ann Kaplan (1998), fig.7. A watercolour signed by William Beilby which depicts a comparable scene is illustrated by Robert Charleston, 'William and Thomas Beilby as Drawing Masters', Glass Circle Journal, Vol.6 (1989), pp.20-31, fig.15 and was sold by Bonhams as part of the Kaplan Collection on 15 November 2017, lot 41.
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