A rare engraved commemorative airtwist wine glass, circa 1750The round funnel bowl decorated with a view of an unfortunate gentleman hanging from the gallows by a noose around his neck, flanked by the initials 'A B' for Admiral Byng, the reverse inscribed 'IUSTICE' below the rim, on a multi-spiral stem and conical foot, 15.9cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceChris Crabtree CollectionAdmiral John Byng (1751-1757) was a high-ranking Naval Officer charged with relieving the British Garrison of Fort St Phillip in Minorca in 1756 as part of the Seven Years War. With an undermanned squadron and a fleet in poor repair, Byng took the decision to return to Gibraltar for refitting soon after first encountering the French. He was subsequently relieved of his command and ordered to return to England to face Court Martial, where he was convicted of 'failing to do his utmost' and sentenced to death. Many considered that Byng had been used as a scapegoat by the Admiralty following the loss of Minorca, but the sentence was carried out despite appeals to Parliament for clemency. Whilst he is shown here hanging, he was in fact executed by firing squad aboard HMS Monarch on 14 March 1757. A very similar glass from the A C Hubbard Jr Collection was sold by Bonhams on 30 November 2011, lot 87 and is illustrated by Ward Lloyd, A Wine Lover's Glasses (2000), p.125, pl.199.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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The Friendly Hunt: a rare engraved firing glass of possible Jacobite interest, circa 1750The ovoid bowl inscribed 'FRIENDLY HUNT' beneath a fruiting vine border to the rim, on a short plain stem and solid circular 'firing' foot, 11cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceChris Crabtree CollectionThe Friendly Hunt was a Worcestershire meet probably connected with a Jacobite society in Worcester known as The Friendly Association. Founded in 1747, the Association met annually in rotation in the neighbouring towns of Droitwich, Bromsgrove, Kidderminster and Stourbridge. No others of this form would be recorded, but a number with drawn trumpet bowls exist. One from The Ron and Mary Thomas Collection was sold by Bonhams on 4 June 2008 and is illustrated by Geoffrey Seddon, The Jacobites and their Drinking Glasses (1995), p.120, pl.86 and by Arthur Churchill, History in Glass (1937), pl.20, no.92. Another was sold by Bonhams on 29 September 2020, lot 47. For further details see Peter Lole, A Digest of the Jacobite Clubs, Royal Stuart Society Paper LV (1999).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Dutch engraved light baluster goblet and an armorial wine glass, circa 1750-60The first with a generous round funnel bowl with a woman seated upon military trophies, an olive branch in her right hand and a bundle of seven tied arrows emblematic of the Seven United Provinces in her left, above a banner inscribed 'PAIX' (Peace), the stem with two teared shoulder knops above a slender teared inverted baluster, over a folded conical foot, 23.9cm high, the other with a slightly flared round funnel bowl decorated with the arms of Utrecht, flanked by lion supporters and resting on a diaper and strapwork bracket, the stem with two shoulder knop above a beaded inverted baluster with a basal knop, over a conical foot, 19.7cm high (2)Footnotes:ProvenanceKrug Collection, Sotheby's, 14 March 1983, lot 666 (armorial glass)LiteratureBrigitte Klesse, Glassammlung Helfried Krug, Vol.2 (1973, p.248, no.675 (armorial glass)The glass inscribed 'PAIX' may commemorate the Peace of Utrecht, a series of peace treaties in Utrecht between 1713 and 1715 which brought the War of the Spanish Succession to a close.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Two Dutch engraved wine glasses, mid-18th centuryComprising a moulded-stem glass, the pointed round funnel bowl decorated with the White Horse of Hanover rearing up on a sward, inscribed 'VIVAT land hadeln' (Long Live Land Hadeln) below the rim, over a six-sided pedestal stem and folded conical foot, 17.2cm high, together with a Saxon glass, the thistle bowl with a solid faceted base, decorated with a formal cartouche containing a three-masted sailing ship, flanked by scrollwork and floral sprays, the reverse inscribed 'HET LANS WEELVARN' (The Prosperity of the Country), on a wide faceted teared inverted baluster stem, the spreading foot folded at the footrim, 18cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceChris Crabtree CollectionLand Hadeln, a Peasant Republic in the northern most region of Lower Saxony, was incorporated into the Kingdom of Hanover in 1731 and annexed in 1763.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Dutch engraved baluster 'Friendship' glass, circa 1750The round funnel bowl with a solid base containing a tear, decorated with a landscape vignette of two clasped hands emerging from clouds beneath a radiant sun, within an elaborate diaper and rococo scroll cartouche, beneath the inscription 'DE GOEDE VRINDSCHAP' (The Good Friendship), the bobbin-like stem with a wide teared globular knop between teared cushion knops above a basal half-knop, over a folded conical foot, 18.3cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceChris Crabtree CollectionFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Dutch engraved baluster wine glass, mid-18th centuryThe tall pointed round funnel bowl with a solid base, decorated with a three-masted sailing ship at sea, flanked by stylised flowers, inscribed 'HET LANS WEL VAREN' (The Prosperity of the Country), the stem with a shoulder knop above a teared inverted baluster terminating in a basal knop, the spreading foot folded at the footrim, 17.4cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceChris Crabtree CollectionFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Dutch engraved facet-cut baluster wine glass, dated 1761The glass perhaps German, the bucket bowl cut with thumbnail facets around the base, decorated with a merchant standing on a quayside and gesturing to a three-masted ship, flanked by scrollwork and flanked supporting baskets of flowers, the reverse inscribed 'T WEL VAAREN VAN/ ONS SCHIP DE IACOB/ ANNO 1761' (The Prosperity of Our Ship The Jacob, 1761), the teared faceted stem with a central short inverted baluster between two pairs of knops, over a conical foot neatly folded at the rim, 18.7cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceProperty of the Dutch noble family Quarles van Ufford, Bonhams, 14 November 2018, lot 51Chris Crabtree CollectionFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A cased George V silver and guilloche enamel dressing table set, Henry Clifford Davis, Birm. 1924, comprising a hand mirror, two hair brushes, cut glass powder jar, cigarette box, shoe horn and trinket dish, in the original fitted Elkington & Co. case, gross weight excluding cut glass bowl and shoe horn 35 tr.oz. (faults). * Lacks one piece. Marks rubbed to most of the pieces. Large chip to enamel to lid of powder jar and also to one corner of cigarette box, with three other smaller chips and a bruise to edges. Chipping to enamel to end of clothes brush. Two chips (to top and underside) of dish. Shoe horn has two chips to enamel and rust.
A late 19th century French silver sugar bowl & cover, having Minerva head mark, diamond maker's mark and other indistinct marks, Louis XVI style, of oval pierced basket form with twin handles, foliate scroll decoration, housing a cobalt blue glass liner, the shaped cover with strawberry plant finial, raised on four scroll feet, 8½in. (21.6cm.) at widest. weight without liner 10.8 tr.oz.. * Very good condition, some hallmarks indistinct, liner good.
A small group of silver smalls, comprising a modern pip dish; an Edwardian two handle sugar bowl; a George V cream jug, dented; and an Edwardian novelty envelope form stamp-safe pendant, weight 8.5tr.oz.; together with a cut glass and silver plate butter dish; and a plated candle snuffer. (6). *
WMF (Wurttembergische Metallwaren Fabrik) Gondola centre piece, the bowl formed as a gondola with standing gondoliere holding an oar, having shaped green glass liner and wire flower frog, the whole resting on wave formed base, marked 'WMF, EP, 1/10, OX', 21 5/8in. (55cm.) long. Some rubbing to metalwork / light surface marks, possible replaced oar, glass liner with nibble to rounded edge, overall good.
An early 19th century cut glass vase, the bucket bowl with panel, diamond and prismatic cutting, on a short knopped stem and star cut base, 6¾in. high; together with two Georgian cut glass bowls, one with cover, probably originally from epergnes. (3). * - Vase: Small chip to rim. Scratching to base.. * - Covered bowl: Chip to edge of cover. A few tiny rim chips and frit to lower body.. * - Other bowl: Two petals to rim chipped. A few tiny frits to edges of base.
A graduated pair of late Georgian glass tazzas, each shallow bowl cut with interlaced pointed leaves and an upturned, barbed rim, on a short, panel cut baluster stem and scalloped, star cut foot, the larger 9in. diameter, 6in. high, the smaller 7in. diameter, 4¾in. high; together with a Georgian cut glass dish with bright cut silver swing handle, probably from an epergne, 7¼in. diameter, faults. (3). * - Tazzas: The larger with chip to rim and several small chips to tips of barbs on rim. The smaller with two large chips to foot and several small chips to tips of barbs to rim.. * - Silver handled dish: Flake and two small chips to rim. No other faults.
A Moser cobalt blue glass urn with flared rim, acid cut neo classical gilt freeze encircling the base of the bowl, faceted sides above faceted splayed foot, etched on base ‘made in Czechoslovakia’ signed on the base ‘Moser….. ?’ , 8¼in. (21cm.) high.. * good condition, gilt freeze with very light rubbing.
A good baluster wine or cordial glass, circa 1730The flared trumpet bowl with a deep solid base enclosing a tear, on a collar above a double-annulated knop, the stem with a solid true baluster, over a conical folded foot, 17.5cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceSotheby's, 13 June 1977, lot 194Stephen Pohlmann CollectionA similar glass is illustrated by L M Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), p.85, no.134. Another was sold by Bonhams as part of the Thomas Collection on 4 June 2008, lot 42. See also lot 9 in this sale.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Dutch engraved moulded stem wine glass, circa 1730-40The pointed round funnel bowl with a solid base enclosing a tear, decorated with a continuous harbour scene depicting a three-masted ship moored by the quayside with three figures in a rowing boat behind, two men unloading barrels and bales onto the harbourside beside a tree, a group of buildings in the distance, inscribed 'T WEL-VAERE VAN DE NEGOTIE' (The Welfare of the Trade), above a six-sided pedestal stem applied with diamonds on the shoulder, over a folded domed foot, 18.1cm highFootnotes:A very similar wine glass with a slightly different harbour scene beneath the same inscription was sold by Bonhams on 4 June 2008, lot 394.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A very fine Dutch engraved armorial light baluster marriage goblet, circa 1760The generous round funnel bowl with an elaborate scrollwork and foliate cartouche reserved with two arms accollé for the families Marquis Bérard de Montalet and de Jonge van Ellemeet, beneath a French marquess's coronet, flanked by two cornucopias bursting with flowers, fruit and profusely scrolling foliage, resting on strapwork brackets, the slender stem with two opposing balusters separated by a small central knop, over a domed foot, 21.3cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceChris Crabtree CollectionThe engraved decoration on this goblet is particularly fine and is in the same league as that produced by the best glass engravers at the time, including Jacob Sang. The coat of arms is likely to represent a marriage between the families of the Marquis Bérard de Montalet of Languedoc in France and de Jonge van Ellemeet of the Netherlands.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Dutch engraved Royal armorial baluster wine glass, second quarter 18th centuryThe round funnel bowl with a slightly everted rim and a solid beaded base, decorated with the English arms of Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange, within a crowned cartouche inscribed with the motto of the Order of the Garter, flanked by crossed floral sprays, the teared stem with two graduated cushion knops above an inverted baluster section, over a conical spreading foot, 17.6cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceChris Crabtree CollectionPrincess Anne (1709-1759) was the eldest daughter of King George II of Great Britain and Caroline of Ansbach.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Dutch engraved Royal armorial light baluster wine glass, circa 1750The bell bowl with the English arms of Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange, supported by the lion and the unicorn, resting on a banner inscribed 'DIEU EST MON DROIT' (God is my Right), a floral spray to the reverse, the slender multi-knopped stem with a globular knop between angular knops, over a short inverted baluster and tall conical foot, 17.8cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceChris Crabtree CollectionPrincess Anne (1709-1759) was the eldest daughter of King George II of Great Britain and Caroline of Ansbach. Similar glasses with the same arms include one from Harveys Wine Museum sold by Bonhams 1 October 2003, lot 146, and one from the James Hall Collection sold by Bonhams on 17 December 2008, lot 81.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Dutch engraved light baluster goblet, circa 1760The generous round funnel bowl decorated with the biblical kings David and Jonathan, both wearing cloaks and armour with swords by their sides, Jonathan kneeling before the crowned figure of David shaking his hand, flanked by leafy plants, inscribed 'DAUID EN IONATHAN', below a highly unusual gilded rim, the tall multi-knopped stem with an angular knop and small baluster above a beaded inverted baluster with a basal knop, over conical foot, 19.9cm highFootnotes:The Book of Samuel describes David's ascent to power and the covenant he formed with Jonathan. Famed for his musical ability, David was summoned to play for King Saul. Jonathan, Saul's son, established a close bond with David and gave clothing and armour to Jonathan to formalise the covenant. The relationship between the two men is considered to have been more than platonic. A 'Friendship' glass engraved with a very similar version of David and Jonathan was sold by Bonhams on 19 December 2009, lot 160. See also the example sold by Bonhams on 21 June 2022, lot 129. It is exceptionally rare to find a gilt rim on an engraved light baluster glass of any kind.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Dutch engraved armorial light baluster wine glass, circa 1750The round funnel bowl with the crowned arms of South Holland flanked by lion supporters, the stem with a short inverted baluster above an acorn knop, plain section and basal knop, the domed foot neatly folded at the edge, 18.4cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceBonhams, 1 December 2021, lot 139Chris Crabtree CollectionFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Dutch engraved armorial light baluster wine glass, circa 1750The generous round funnel bowl with the crowned arms of South Holland flanked by lion supporters, resting on a scrollwork bracket hung with three tassels, all below a banner inscribed 'VIGI LATE DEO CONFIDENTES' (Watch, Trusting in God) in diamond-point, resting on a large half-knop, the stem with a central teared ball knop, over a domed foot, 19.5cm highFootnotes:ProvenancePeter Lazarus CollectionChris Crabtree CollectionFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Dutch engraved light baluster wine glass, circa 1750-60The round funnel bowl inscribed 'DE PRACTYK' (The Practice) within a foliate scroll and strapwork cartouche embellished with polished circlets, raised on a very slender tall stem with a central triple-annulated knop between shoulder and basal knops, over a conical foot, 20.4cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceDr Michael Scorer Collection, Christie's, 15 June 1994, lot 65For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A baluster cordial glass, circa 1720-30The truncated trumpet bowl with a solid base, resting on a shoulder knop above a plain stem swelling into a central teared angular knop, the tear extending into a small basal knop, over a conical foot, 16.1cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceWith Alan Milford, 29 January 1977Stephen Pohlmann CollectionA similar glass from the Walker Collection was sold by Bonhams on 21 June 2022, lot 46.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
An engraved opaque twist goblet and a large wine glass, circa 1765The first with a generous tapering bucket bowl decorated with a formal border of flutes issuing stylised flowers below the rim, on a single-series stem containing a multi-ply corkscrew edged with a pair of heavy opaque white tapes, over a conical foot, 15.9cm high, the other with a generous drawn trumpet bowl on a double-series stem containing a pair of opaque white threads around a central gauze column, over a conical foot, 17.4cm high (2)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
The Dreadnought: a rare engraved Privateer wine glass, circa 1757-58The bucket bowl engraved with the three-masted ship in sail, inscribed 'Success to the DREADNOUGHT Privateer,' below the rim, on a single-series opaque twist stem containing a multi-ply corkscrew edged with a pair of heavy opaque white threads, over a conical foot, the stem repaired with a silver sleeve, 15.5cm highFootnotes:ProvenancePeter Lazarus CollectionTerence C Woodfield CollectionChris Crabtree CollectionLiteratureCleo Witt, Introducing Bristol Glass (1984), p.29Cleo Witt, Cyril Weeden and Arlene Palmer Schwind, Bristol Glass (1984), p.42ExhibitedThe Bristol and West Building, Broad Quay, June-July 1984The Dreadnought was a Bristol ship of 130 tons with 12 guns, 12 swivels and a crew of 120 men, owned by Bristol merchants John Harbord, Jonah Thomas, Samuel Thomas and William Wasbrough. She was first declared on 22 March 1757 by Captain James Leisman, on 16 March 1758 by Captain Richard Fitzherbert, on 29 August that year by Captain Joseph English, then again on 10 April 1762 by Captain George Burford, see J W Damer Powell, Bristol Privateers and Ships of War (1930), pp.200-1. A diary written by the ship's unnamed surgeon during a four-month cruise in 1757 under the captaincy of Leisman in the Bristol Archives details life on board, including the capture of the Lyon, a French ship travelling from St. Domingo to Bordeaux.The dreadnought captured several foreign vessels. Perhaps her greatest success, as noted in Berrow's Worcester Journal in August 1757, was the capture of 'the Marquis de Conflans, from St. Domingo to Rochelle. She mounts 20 Guns, and engag'd the Dreadnought three Hours. This Prize is reckon'd worth between £20,000 and £30,000'. Lloyd's List describes this ship as being '300 Tons, 12 Guns and 30 Men, loaded with about 160 Hhds of fine, and 160 of brown Sugar, about 170 Hhds of Coffee, 12 Casks of Indigo, 4 Bags of Cotton, & a small Quantity of Tortoiseshell.' An identical glass, presumably from the same original set, is in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge (inv. no.C.523-1961), illustrated in the catalogue (1978), p.105, no.269a.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A rare engraved political commemorative facet stem wine glass, circa 1770The ovoid bowl decorated with Britannia seated beside a pedestal draped with a flag, holding a hat raised on a lance in her left hand, inscribed 'MAGNA CHARTA' on a banner to her right, the stem cut with hexagonal facets extending into the base of the bowl, over a conical foot, 13.8cm highFootnotes:It is likely that this glass has its roots in the radical politics of John Wilkes (1727-1797). Wilkes and his supporters invoked Magna Carta extensively as a symbol of the ancient rights and liberties that were under threat from the government. He used the symbols of English Liberty, including Magna Carta and the Hat of Liberty, as propaganda after he was tried and convicted for seditious libel in 1764. An identical glass is illustrated in Asprey's catalogue, 100 British Glasses (1985), p.61, no.96 and was offered by Bonhams as part of the James Hall Collection on 17 December 2008, lot 185.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
An engraved facet stem wine glass, circa 1775The round funnel bowl cut around the base with petal motifs forming a rose when viewed from above, decorated with a landscape vignette depicting a house beside a crenelated turret with a castle in the distance, flanked by trees, the stem cut with diamond facets, over a conical foot, 14.9cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceChris Crabtree CollectionTwo sets of facet stem glasses engraved with landscapes in a very similar style are illustrated by W A Thorpe, A History of English and Irish Glass (1929), pls.CXXI-II.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A rare engraved facet stem wine glass, circa 1770The ogee bowl with a petal-cut base, inscribed with the motto of the Order of the Garter 'HONI SOIT QUI MAL.Y PENSE' on a continuous banner below the rim, on a diamond faceted stem and conical foot, 13.8cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceG V A Seccombe-Hett Collection, Sotheby's, 12 April 1961, lot 31Walter F Smith Collection, Sotheby's, 4 December 1967, lot 257 (part)Christie's, 18 April 1987, lot 129Peter Lazarus Collection, no.F.23Chris Crabtree CollectionExhibitedLazarus Collection of Drinking Glasses, City of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, 1981 and on loan until 14 November 1986For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A rare engraved airtwist cider glass, circa 1750The slender bell bowl with a border of tasselled drapery to the rim, hung with two pairs of entwined fruiting apple branches forming two cartouches, each containing a single apple, on a multi-spiral inverted baluster stem and conical foot, 17.2cm high Footnotes:ProvenanceSotheby's, 14 April 1992, lot 131Peter Meyer Collection, Bonhams, 1 May 2013, lot 37For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A fine and rare heavy baluster wine glass, circa 1710The conical bowl with a solid base, resting on a collar, above a wide drop knop containing a tear extending into a basal cushion knop, over a folded conical foot, 15.5cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceWith Delomosne and Son, 18 August 1977Stephen Pohlmann CollectionA similar glass is illustrated by Delomosne and Son, The Baluster Family (1985), no.15a and another from the James Hall Collection was sold by Bonhams on 17 December 2008, lot 48. See also the example illustrated by Percy Bate, English Table Glass (1905), p.VI, no.17. For a related drop-knopped glass but with a pan topped bowl, see that from the Walker Collection sold by Bonhams on 1 December 2021, lot 76.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Five opaque twist wine glasses and a facet stem glass, circa 1765-75The twist examples with double-series stems and conical feet, comprising one of possible Jacobite significance, the ogee bowl engraved with a stylised tulip spray and a bee in flight to the reverse, 13.6cm high, one with a double ogee bowl engraved with a continuous band of fruiting vine, the stem with a central swelling knop, 14.4cm high, one with an ogee bowl on a tall stem, 15.8cm high, and two with round funnel bowls including one in soda glass, 13.1cm and 14.5cm high, the last with a round funnel bowl engraved with a stylised spray of flowers and a bird in flight to the reverse, on a stem cut with hexagonal facets, over a conical foot, 14.5cm high (6)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Norwegian footed bowl and cover, Nøstetangen Glasværk, second quarter 18th centuryThe deep cup-shaped bowl with fine thread trailing to the rim, moulded with heavy flamiform spiral gadroons to the lower part, set on a double collar and short plain stem, over a small terraced and domed foot, the domed cover also spirally gadrooned and with a beaded button finial, 18.2cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceChris Crabtree CollectionThe spiral gadrooning on this bowl has parallels with a number of pieces produced at Nøstetangen, see Ada Buch Polak, Gammelt Norsk Glass (1953), pls.25-27, nos.118, 122, 124 and 121, and pls.30-31, nos.49 and 45. A coin mead glass of very similar size and form from the Peter Lazarus Collection, containing a George II shilling of 1745 in the stem, was sold by Christie's on 26 November 1991, lot 139.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Two Irish (Cork) cut glass standing bowls or centrepieces, circa 1790-1800With deep boat-shaped bowls cut with elaborate crenelated 'Vandyke' rims, one of generous size cut with a band of shallow diamonds within ovals, on a heavy true baluster stem, the oval 'lemon squeezer' foot moulded with gadroons, 25.6cm high, 24.6cm wide, the smaller cut with a wide border of flat diamonds and a band of broad basal flutes, on a solid faceted oval spreading foot, 16.2cm high, 20cm wide (2)Footnotes:The 'soft' flat diamond cutting of both bowls is highly characteristic of vessels attributed to the Cork glasshouses, see Phelps Warren, Irish Glass (1981), p.215, fig.241(a). A virtually identical bowl to the larger was sold by Christie's on 23 May 1989, lot 52.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Two Irish cut glass pedestal bowls, circa 1800Probably Cork, with generous 'turnover' rims cut with bands of fine mitre flutes, the bowls cut with a band of 'brickwork', raised on square 'lemon squeezer' feet, the larger of circular form on a bobbin knopped stem, 19cm high, 24cm diam, the smaller of oval form on a short plain stem, 15cm high, 21.5cm wide (2)Footnotes:For a turnover bowl with similar cutting attributed to the Cork glasshouses, see Phelps Warren, Irish Glass (1981), p.215, fig.241(b).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A good gilded opaque twist wine glass, circa 1765Decorated in the London workshop of James Giles, the ogee bowl decorated with a meandering branch of fruiting vine, a gilt band to the rim, the double-series stem with a pair of multi-ply spiral tapes around a pair of heavy spiral threads, over a conical foot, 14.7cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceGerald Moore CollectionA very similar glass is illustrated by L M Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), p.351, no.1145.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A good colour twist wine glass, circa 1765The bell bowl on a stem containing a solid multi-ply corkscrew edged on both sides in translucent green, encircled by alternating translucent red and opaque white spiral threads, over a conical foot, 17cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceChris Crabtree CollectionFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A fine and rare Beilby enamelled opaque twist wine glass, circa 1765-70The round funnel bowl painted in opaque white with a pyramid in a bosky landscape, the double-series stem with two pairs of heavy opaque white spiral threads around a central gauze column, over a conical foot, 14.4cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceHamilton Clements CollectionDarell Thompson-Schwab CollectionLiteratureFrancis Buckley, Old English Glass (1925), pl.XXXVA slightly larger glass painted with a very similar pyramid is illustrated by L M Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), p.335, no.1092 and was sold by Bonhams in Part 1 of this collection on 21 June 2022, lot 107. For a glass decorated with a different style of pyramid, see lot 145 in this sale.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A rare Beilby enamelled opaque twist wine glass, circa 1765-70The round funnel bowl painted in opaque white with a fine ruined arch with a prominent keystone, profusely flanked by trees and shrubs, on a double-series stem with two pairs of heavy spiral threads outside of a central gauze column, over a conical foot, 14.7cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceDarell Thompson-Schwab CollectionA very similar glass was sold by Christie's on 14 June 1983, lot 105 (part) and is illustrated by L M Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), p.337, no.1097. An example with two similar ruined arches beside a column was sold by Bonhams in Part 1 of this collection on 21 June 2022, lot 103.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A good heavy baluster wine glass, circa 1710-15The thistle shaped bowl solid at the base, set on a teared mushroom knop, the tear extending into a basal ball knop, over a wide folded conical foot, 17.8cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceDonald Beves Collection, Sotheby's, 11 May 1964, lot 82Sotheby's, 17 April 1978, lot 47Stephen Pohlmann CollectionA similar glass is illustrated by Dwight P Lanmon, The Golden Age of English Glass (2011), pp.114-5, no.32. Another from the Walker Collection was sold by Bonhams on 1 December 2021, lot 65. For a slightly larger example, see lot 18 in this sale.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
An exceptionally rare Beilby enamelled opaque twist marriage goblet, circa 1765The generous flared bucket bowl finely inscribed 'Health & Prosperity/ to the happy pair./ C C' in elaborate opaque white script, the reverse painted with a fruiting vine, the entwined stem issuing branches of leaves, tendrils and grapes, set on a double-series stem containing a pair of heavy opaque white spiral threads around a central gauze column, over a conical foot, 17.4cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceDarell Thompson-Schwab CollectionWhilst the identity of 'C C' or indeed 'the happy pair' to which this remarkable goblet refers remains unknown, we know that other glasses were certainly commissioned from the Beilby workshop to celebrate marriages, see for example the Surtees Marriage Glasses sold by Bonhams on 23 June 2021, lots 9-12 and the Thompson Wine Glass sold by Bonhams on 21 June 2022, lot 109.A bottle or caddy enamelled in virtually identical opaque white script with a very similar inscription reading 'How blest is the life of retirement. But yet more blest the Happy pair' on one side and 'S I To Mr Hutchinson. Stony gill. 1764' in capitals on the other, is in Torre Abbey, Torquay, illustrated by Geoffrey Wills, Antique Glass for Pleasure and Investment (1971), pl.6. Two goblets of related size and form painted with fruiting vine in a similar manner, but without inscriptions, are illustrated by James Rush, The Ingenious Beilbys (1973), p.70, no.30 and p.117, no.68a.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A rare Beilby enamelled opaque twist wine glass, circa 1765-70The ogee bowl painted in opaque white with a pastoral landscape featuring two sheep, one recumbent looking over its shoulder at its companion standing behind, a tree before a fence to the left and a leafy plant to the right, on a double-series stem with two pairs of three-ply spiral bands around a central gauze column, over a conical foot, 14.5cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceDarell Thompson-Schwab CollectionThe scene on this glass relates to others decorated with pastoral scenes, also without gilded rims, see those sold by Bonhams in Part 1 of this collection on 21 June 2022, lots 110 and 111. A very similar glass from the Sir Bernard Eckstein Collection is in the Ashmolean Museum (inv. no.WA1948.156.47). A glass with a round funnel bowl decorated with a related scene is illustrated by James Rush, A Beilby Odyssey (1987), p.138, no.101 and was sold as part of the Peter Meyer Collection by Bonhams on 1 May 2013, lot 71.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A very rare Beilby enamelled opaque twist wine glass, circa 1765-70The round funnel bowl painted in opaque white with a landscape vignette featuring an elaborate urn set on a cylindrical fluted plinth or column, the small figure of a gentleman with a staff walking his dog to the right, amongst trees and shrubs, faint traces of gilding to the rim, on a double-series stem with a pair of heavy opaque white spiral threads around a multi-ply corkscrew, over a conical foot, 15.1cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceDarell Thompson-Schwab CollectionWhilst several Beilby enamelled glasses are decorated with similar urns on pedestals, the inclusion of the figure of a man with his dog is most unusual and no other similar example would appear to be recorded. For a glass depicting a similar urn on a pedestal, see that sold by Bonhams in Part 1 of this collection on 21 June 2022, lot 98. Another from the A C Hubbard Jr Collection was sold by Bonhams on 30 November 2011, lot 140 and is illustrated by both L M Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), p.335, no.1091 and Ward Lloyd, A Wine Lover's Glasses (2000), pp.78-9, pl.100a. See also lot 39 in this sale.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A very rare Beilby enamelled opaque twist wine glass, circa 1765-70The round funnel bowl finely painted in opaque white enamel with an urn displayed on a pedestal within an elaborate neoclassical pavilion or folly, the four columns supporting a domed roof and hung with floral swags, flanked by rows of three poplar trees amongst shrubs on each side, the double-series stem with two pairs of heavy opaque white spiral threads around a central gauze column, over a conical foot, 14.4cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceDarell Thompson-Schwab CollectionNeoclassical pavilions are very rarely seen on Beilby enamelled glasses. A smaller pavilion of very similar style features on a glass sold by Bonhams in Part 1 of this collection on 21 June 2022, lot 100. The decoration relates to a series of glasses painted with Chinese pavilions. An example now in Corning Museum of Glass (inv. no.2012.2.1) is illustrated by L M Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1987), p.337, no.1100 and was sold by Bonhams as part of the A C Hubbard Jr Collection on 30 November 2011, lot 139. Another from the Chris Crabtree Collection was sold by Bonhams on 15 June 2011, lot 99. Like the present lot, the pavilions on these two glasses are flanked by rows of poplar trees which enhance the rural idyll which was so popular at the time.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A rare Beilby enamelled opaque twist wine glass, circa 1765-70The round funnel bowl painted in opaque white with a tall neoclassical column with a Corinthian capital, surmounted by a statue of a man holding a staff, in a landscape of trees and shrubs, the rim with very 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, 15.3cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceDarell Thompson-Schwab CollectionColumns and follies in neoclassical style are very rare on Beilby glasses but relate to a series of glasses painted in a similar style with classical ruins. An example decorated with classical ruins beside a column was sold by Bonhams in Part 1 of this collection on 21 June 2022, lot 103. 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. An example of identical form painted in similar style with a temple or folly, perhaps from the same original set as the present lot, was sold by Bonhams in Part 1 of this collection on 21 June 2002, lot 100.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A very rare Beilby enamelled incised twist wine glass, circa 1765-70Of attractive small size, the generous round funnel bowl painted in opaque white with a landscape featuring classical ruins, five classical columns supporting a pediment from which sprays of foliage grow, flanked by trees and shrubs, raised on a short incised twist stem and conical foot, 11.6cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceSotheby's, 5 June 2007, lot 180Darell Thompson-Schwab CollectionThe decoration on this glass relates to series of opaque twist Beilby wine glasses enamelled with classical ruins, but such decoration on an incised twist glass is rare. An almost identical glass in the Laing Art Gallery and presumably from the same original set is illustrated by both James Rush, A Beilby Odyssey (1987), p.141, no.104 and L M Bickerton, Eighteenth century English Drinking Glasses (1986), p.335, no.1090. Another Beilby enamelled incised twist glass decorated instead with a floral spray and butterfly was sold by Bonhams on 19 May 2010, lot 49.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A very rare Beilby enamelled airtwist deceptive firing or dram glass, circa 1765Of Masonic interest, the thick-walled round funnel bowl finely inscribed 'TEMPERANCE' in opaque white, with acanthus leaf scroll detailing above and below, the reverse with a spray of flowers issuing from long leaves, faint traces of gilding to the rim, on a short multi-spiral stem and heavy terraced firing foot, 10.4cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceRobert Lymbery Collection, Sotheby's, 11 May 1999, lot 18A C Hubbard Jr Collection, Bonhams, 30 November 2011, lot 153Darell Thompson-Schwab CollectionLiteratureRobert J Charleston, 'The Beilby glasses', Antiques, Vol.83 (March 1963), p.322, fig.8 (left)James Rush, The Ingenious Beilbys (1973), p.142, no.83L M Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), p.347, no.1134Ward Lloyd, A Wine Lover's Glasses (2000), pp.76-7, pls.96 and 97.ExhibitedCircle of Glass Collectors Commemorative Exhibition 1937-1962, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1962, no.294The Decorated Glasses of William and Mary Beilby, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1980, no.49Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1980-1999 (inv. no.TWCMS:G15938)At least four other similar firing glasses inscribed 'TEMPERANCE' are known, presumably from the same original set although with different floral motifs on the reverse. One is in the Museum of Freemasonry (inv. no.M2009/2826), another in the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery in Swansea, and two are in private collections. They are likely to have been made as toasting glasses for one of the Masonic Lodges of Temperance.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A rare Beilby enamelled opaque twist wine glass, circa 1765-70The ogee bowl finely painted in opaque white with a landscape vignette depicting a shepherd standing before a stunted tree, leaning on his staff with his legs slightly crossed, gazing towards two sheep before him, one standing and the other recumbent beneath a small tree, on a double-series stem with a fifteen-ply spiral band around a multi-ply corkscrew, over a conical foot, 15.4cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceDarell Thompson-Schwab CollectionThis charming glass closely relates to an example painted with a virtually identical pastoral scene illustrated by L M Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), p.333, no.1084 and exhibited by Delomosne and Son, Gilding the Lily, 1978, no.74 (part). This was sold by Bonhams in Part 1 of this collection on 21 June 2022, lot 110. Another decorated with the same scene is illustrated by Derek C Davis and Keith Middlemas, Coloured Glass (1968), p.59. A 1774 ink and wash drawing signed by William Beilby in the Victoria and Albert Museum (inv. no.E.114-1961) featuring a very a shepherd in a very similar pose is illustrated by Simon Cottle, 'William Beilby and the Art of Glass', The Glass Circle Journal, Vol.9 (2001), p.38, pl.9. For a glass with a related scene of a shepherd playing a flute, see that sold by Bonhams in Part 1 of this collection on 21 June 2022, lot 108.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
An important Beilby enamelled opaque twist wine glass, circa 1765-70The ogee bowl with a slightly deceptive base, painted in opaque white with a landscape vignette depicting a sportsman standing with his legs astride, wearing a smart frock coat and peaked cap, aiming his gun at a flock of ten birds startled by his dog, flanked by shrubs, on an double-series stem with a pair of seven-ply spiral bands around a multi-ply corkscrew, over a conical foot, 15cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceM E Laws Collection, Christie's, 2 October 1974, lot 112With Maureen ThompsonBonhams, 21 May 2014, lot 76Darell Thompson-Schwab CollectionWildfowling scenes such as this were a popular theme on Beilby enamelled glasses and a number of examples with closely related decoration are recorded, each showing a single figure shooting game birds in flight. Two other virtually identical wine glasses are recorded, suggesting that this may have once been part of an original set. One was sold by Sotheby's on 1 November 1982, lot 38 and is now in the Laing Art Gallery (inv. no.F6317), illustrated by L M Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), p.332, no.1079. The other was in the Hamilton Clements Collection, illustrated by Francis Buckley, A History of Old English Glass (1925), pl.XXXV and sold by Sotheby's on 15 May 1930, then again as part of the Henry Brown Collection on 14 November 1947, lot 255.An example with a different wildfowling scene is illustrated by Martine Newby, Eighteenth Century English Glass from the Collection of Julius and Ann Kaplan (1998), p.12, fig.3 and was sold by Bonhams on 15 November 2017, lot 25. See also the example from the A C Hubbard Jr Collection illustrated by Ward Lloyd, A Wine Lover's Glasses (2000), p.72, pl.89 and that from the Sir Hugh Dawson Collection illustrated by both Bickerton (1986), p.332, no.1080 and R J Charleston, English Glass (1984), pl.41f.Two dated Beilby enamelled vessels painted in white with related wildfowling scenes include a tumbler inscribed 'Success to R Brown 1768' in the Durrington Collection, illustrated by Roger Dodsworth in his catalogue (2006), p.36, no.32 and a clear glass flask inscribed 'Thomas Brown, Nenthead, 1769' in the Ashmolean Museum (inv. no.WA1957.24.2.181), illustrated by James Rush, A Beilby Odyssey (1987), p.69, pl.29. Compare also to the earlier South Staffordshire polychrome enamelled opaque white flask depicting a similar scene, possibly by William Beilby working for John Haseldine, sold by Bonhams as part of the Kaplan Collection on 15 November 2017, lot 39.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A cylinder-knopped baluster wine glass, circa 1720The bell bowl resting on a cushion knop and a collar , above a teared cylinder knop and small basal baluster knop, over a conical folded foot, 14.1cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceBonhams, 3 June 2009, lot 10With Jeanette Hayhurst, 13 October 2009Stephen Pohlmann CollectionThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Beilby enamelled opaque twist ale glass, circa 1765-70The tall ogee bowl painted in opaque white with hops on one side and a single leafy ear of barley pendant from the rim on the other, faint traces of gilding to the rim edge, on a single-series stem containing a solid multi-ply corkscrew, over a conical foot, 19cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceDarell Thompson-Schwab CollectionA very similar example was sold by Bonhams on 5 December 2007, lot 39. Another with comparable decoration in the Fitzwilliam Museum is illustrated by James Rush, The Ingenious Beilbys (1973), p.31, pl.15b. Related examples with slightly different ears of barley were sold by Bonhams in Part 1 of this collection on 21 June 2022, lot 115 and as part of the Graham Vivian Collection on 1 December 2021, lot 132.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A rare Beilby enamelled opaque twist wine glass, circa 1765-70The round funnel bowl finely painted in opaque white with a peacock perched on rococo scrollwork, the reverse with a peahen on a scroll issuing a foliate spray, a butterfly in flight between then, the rim with traces of gilding, the single-series stem with a multi-ply corkscrew edged with a pair of heavy opaque white spiral tapes, over a conical foot, 14.7cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceDarell Thompson-Schwab CollectionThe peacock is a popular motif from the age of rococo. A virtually identical glass from the Sir Bernard Eckstein Collection is in the Ashmolean Museum (inv. no.WA1948.156.91). Another similar glass from the Henry Brown Collection is illustrated by W A Thorpe, A History of English and Irish Glass (1929), pl.CXXXII. Wine glasses with ogee bowls painted with similar birds in opaque white but instead perched on turquoise-blue scrolls are illustrated by James Rush, A Beilby Odyssey (1987), pp.79-80, nos.44a and 45, the latter glass additionally illustrated by L M Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), p.339, no.1107. See also no.1106. A tumbler with related decoration was sold by Bonhams on 16 December 2009, lot 64.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A fine Beilby enamelled opaque twist wine glass, circa 1765-70The ogee bowl painted in opaque white with a long-tailed 'fancy bird', perhaps a pheasant or peahen, its foot resting on a ball, leafy grasses to its left, the reverse with a splendid butterfly, on a double-series stem with a pair of eight-ply spiral bands encircling a multi-ply corkscrew, over a conical foot, 14.5cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceDarell Thompson-Schwab CollectionA virtually identical glass is illustrated by both L M Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), p.338, no.1102 and E M Elville, The Collector's Dictionary of Glass (1961), p.80, fig.111. Another with very similar decoration, but with the grasses replaced by a tree, was sold by Bonhams in Part 1 of this collection on 21 June 2022, lot 104.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A very rare Beilby enamelled armorial wine glass, circa 1765-70The round funnel bowl painted in polychrome with a yellow rococo scrollwork cartouche heightened in iron-red, enclosing the coat of arms of Thomas impaling Clayton in black, white and gilt, flanked by foliate sprigs, the reverse with fruiting vine in white enamel pendent from the rim, set on a double-series opaque twist stem with a pair of spiral threads around a multi-ply corkscrew, over a conical foot, 15.1cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceDarell Thompson-Schwab CollectionThe coat of arms is that of the Right Reverend John Thomas (1712-1793), who was Bishop of Rochester from 1774. Born in Carlisle, he was the eldest son of John Thomas, vicar of Brampton, Cumberland. He had a remarkable and distinguished career in the church, beginning on 27 March 1737 when he was ordained a deacon before receiving priest's orders on 25 September that year. On 27 January 1738 he was instituted rector of Bletchingley in Surrey, a living in the gift of Sir William Clayton whose daughter Anne he would go on to marry.Thomas was appointed chaplain in ordinary to King George II on 18 January 1749, a post which he retained under King George III. On 23 April 1754 he was made a prebendary of Westminster and in 1762 was appointed sub-almoner to the Archbishop of York. He was instituted to the vicarage of St Bride's, Fleet Street, London on 7 January 1766 and became Dean of Westminster and of the Order of the Bath in 1768. He was consecrated Bishop of Rochester on 13 November 1774.Thomas was married twice and the arms on the present glass represent his first marriage to Anne, daughter of Sir William Clayton and widow of Sir Charles Blackwell, on 19 August 1742. Anne died on 7 July 1772 and he remarried on 12 January 1776, this time to Elizabeth, daughter of Charles Baldwin and widow of Sir Joseph Yates.The present glass is one from a set of three discovered in the Portsmouth area in 2011 and sold at auction in Chichester later that year. Two others were recorded prior to the discovery, including one sold by Christie's on 6 October 1990, lot 162 and now in in the Durrington Collection, see Peter Dodsworth's catalogue (2006), p.38, no.33 and one sold as part of the Chris Crabtree Collection by Bonhams on 19 May 2010, lot 62. It is likely that the set was commissioned prior to Anne's death in 1772, perhaps to celebrate Thomas' new position of Dean of Westminster and of the Order of the Bath in 1768. A comparable set of four Beilby enamelled armorial glasses bearing the arms of the Surtees family was sold by Bonhams on 23 June 2021, lots 9-12.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A fine and rare Beilby enamelled opaque twist wine glass, circa 1765-70The 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 highFootnotes:ProvenanceHenry Brown CollectionDarell Thompson-Schwab CollectionLiteratureW A Thorpe, A History of English and Irish Glass (1929), pl.CXXXIIG Bernard Hughes, English, Scottish and Irish Table Glass (1956), pl.130A 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
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