A Beilby enamelled opaque twist firing glass, circa 1765-70
The ogee bowl painted in white with a fruiting vine tree, the reverse with a small winged insect, perhaps a butterfly, set on a double-series stem with a nineteen-ply spiral band outside of pair of spiral tapes within air bubbles, on a heavy terraced foot, 9.5cm high
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Provenance
Tatton Hewetson Collection, Bonhams, 13 November 2013, lot 43
Darell Thompson-Schwab Collection

A number of Beilby glasses painted with virtually identical vine trees are recorded, but firing glasses are very rare. A virtually identical firing glass from the Wyatt and Hartshorne Collections, sold by Bonhams on 15 December 2010, lot 54, is illustrated by both James Rush, The ingenious Beilbys (1973), p.93, no.51a and L M Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), p.341, no.1113.