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A Beilby polychrome enamelled opaque-twist ale-flute
A Beilby polychrome enamelled opaque-twist ale-flute

CIRCA 1765

細節
A Beilby polychrome enamelled opaque-twist ale-flute
Circa 1765
The slender ogee bowl enamelled in colours with flowering Scotch thistle beneath a Royal Crown and above the motto Nemo me Impune Lacefsit.(No one shall provide me with impunity), the reverse enamelled in white with a hovering butterfly, the stem with a multi-ply corkscrew core enclosed within two entwined ribbons, on a conical foot (chips to footrim)
7.5/8 in. (19.5 cm.) high
來源
The Collection of Mrs. H.F. Thomas, sale Sotheby's, 11th June 1936, lot 38.

拍品專文

The motto is that of the Order of the Thistle. For a similarly decorated ale-flute from the George H. Lorimer Collection, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, see Simon Cottle, "The Other Beilbys: British enamelled glass of the eighteenth century", Apollo, October 1986, p. 322, col. pl. IX.