A rare Beilby enamelled opaque twist wine glass, circa 1765-70
The slender round funnel bowl painted in opaque white with a neoclassical temple or folly, four columns supporting a domed roof adorned by a statue of a man holding a staff, in a landscape of trees and shrubs, the rim with faint traces of gilding, the double-series stem with a pair of eight-ply spiral bands around a pair of gauze corkscrews, over a conical foot, 15.5cm high
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Provenance
Darell Thompson-Schwab Collection

Pavilions in neoclassical style are very rare on Beilby glasses but relate to a series of glasses painted in a similar style with classical ruins, see for example the previous lot in this sale. A handful of examples painted with Chinese pavilions incorporate similar statues holding staffs, see the example illustrated by James Rush, A Beilby Odyssey (1987), p.66, no.25 which was sold by Bonhams as part of the A C Hubbard Jr Collection on 30 November 2011, lot 144 and that illustrated by L M Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1987), p.337, no.1100 which was sold in the same sale, lot 139.