A fine and rare Beilby enamelled opaque twist wine glass, circa 1765-70

A fine and rare Beilby enamelled opaque twist wine glass, circa 1765-70 The generous round funnel bowl painted in opaque white with a towering pyramid or obelisk embellished with scrollwork and surmounted by a small urn, in a landscape of shrubs and trees, faint traces of gilding to the rim, the double-series stem with a pair of heavy opaque white spiral tapes within an eighteen-ply spiral band, over a conical foot, 15.5cm high Footnotes: Provenance Henry Brown Collection Darell Thompson-Schwab Collection Literature W A Thorpe, A History of English and Irish Glass (1929), pl.CXXXII G Bernard Hughes, English, Scottish and Irish Table Glass (1956), pl.130 A handful of other Beilby glasses decorated with pyramids or similar obelisks are known. A glass with very similar decoration is illustrated by both James Rush, The Ingenious Beilbys (1973), p.143, no.85a and L M Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), p.336, no.1093. Another is illustrated by Christopher Sheppard and John Smith, Glass from the Restoration to the Regency (1990), p.77, no.111. A similar pyramid on a glass with a bell bowl was sold by Bonhams in Part 1 of this collection on 21 June 2022, lot 114. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com