Lot 56
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A BEILBY MASONIC OPAQUE-TWIST FIRING-GLASS, the funnel bowl enamelled in white with a sunburst, dividers and a ruler entwined with foliage, the reverse with further emblems and foliage, the border with diaper-pattern edged in C-scrolls, on a double-series stem and terraced foot, circa 1770

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A BEILBY MASONIC OPAQUE-TWIST FIRING-GLASS, the funnel bowl enamelled in white with a sunburst, dividers and a ruler entwined with foliage, the reverse with further emblems and foliage, the border with diaper-pattern edged in C-scrolls, on a double-series stem and terraced foot, circa 1770
9.5cm. high

Lot Essay

For other enamelled firing or dram-glasses attributed to the Beilby workshop see the example from the collection of the late Peter Lazarus, sold in these Rooms on 26 November 1991, lot 133 and L.M. Bickerton, Eighteenth-Century English Drinking Glasses, no. 779

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