With a bucket shaped bowl painted in white enamel with a landscape vignette featuring a towering obelisk and Classical ruins, two very stylised figures at the right hand side of the scene engaging in conversation, a single butterfly on the reverse, the double series opaque twist stem with a multi-ply corkscrew encircled by a twelve-ply spiral band, 17.3cm high

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Provenance
Sotheby's sale 14 April 1992, lot 146

This splendid goblet is of a shape much favoured by the Beilbys, presenting a large flat surface. Several examples were painted with Classical ruins including a goblet in the Victoria and Albert Museum with an almost identical composition to the present lot. This is illustrated by James Rush, The Ingenious Beilbys (1973), p.67, pl.38a. Rush also shows as pl.7 a goblet with a pyramid placed on the right hand side of similar ruined arches. This relates to the decoration on the reverse of the Pollard Goblet in the A.C. Hubbard Jr. Collection, sold by Bonhams 30 November 2011, lot 152

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- Glass
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A fine and large Beilby enamelled opaque twist goblet, circa 1765-70

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