A fine Beilby enamelled opaque twist wine glass, circa 1765-70The ogee bowl with a partly deceptive base, painted in opaque white with a handsome peacock standing proudly on a stone plinth adjoining a balustrade, a small urn on the opposite plinth, a flying bird on the reserve of the bowl, perhaps a peahen, the finely constructed opaque twist stem set with a multi-ply corkscrew encircled by a pair of spiral threads, on a conical foot, 15cm highFootnotesProvenance Darell Thompson-Schwab Collection A popular motif from the age of rococo, a similar wine glass painted with a peacock is illustrated by Martine Newby, Eighteenth Century English Glass from the Collection of Julius and Ann Kaplan (1998), p.15, fig.9 and was sold by Bonhams on 15 November 2017, lot 27.
A fine Beilby enamelled opaque twist wine glass, circa 1765-70The ogee bowl with a partly deceptive base, painted in opaque white with a handsome peacock standing proudly on a stone plinth adjoining a balustrade, a small urn on the opposite plinth, a flying bird on the reserve of the bowl, perhaps a peahen, the finely constructed opaque twist stem set with a multi-ply corkscrew encircled by a pair of spiral threads, on a conical foot, 15cm highFootnotesProvenance Darell Thompson-Schwab Collection A popular motif from the age of rococo, a similar wine glass painted with a peacock is illustrated by Martine Newby, Eighteenth Century English Glass from the Collection of Julius and Ann Kaplan (1998), p.15, fig.9 and was sold by Bonhams on 15 November 2017, lot 27.
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