A rare Beilby enamelled opaque twist goblet, circa 1765-70
The generous slightly flared bucket bowl painted in white with a landscape featuring a towering pyramid or obelisk on a bosky riverbank, two stylised figures engaging in conversation standing to the left, a ruined castle in the distance, the reverse with a single tree amidst shrubs, faint traces of gilding to the rim, the double-series stem with a multi-ply corkscrew encircled by a pair of heavy opaque white spiral threads, over a conical foot, 18.7cm high
Footnotes:
Provenance
Robert Lymbery Collection
Darell Thompson-Schwab Collection

Exhibited
Circle of Glass Collectors Commemorative Exhibition 1937-1962, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1962, no.288

This splendid goblet is of a shape much favoured by the Beilbys, presenting a large flat surface upon which to paint. A small number of goblets with similar scenes incorporating pyramids or obelisks are known, including one in the Victoria and Albert Museum (inv. no.C.628-1936) illustrated by James Rush, The Ingenious Beilbys (1973), p.67, no.38a. See also the example on p.19, no.7 and that sold by Bonhams on 2 May 2018, lot 140.