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Wine Glass

ca. 1770 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Foot: domed; Stem: baluster; Knop: teared; Bowl: round funnel

Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Glass, enamelled with fictitious armorials
Brief description
Wine glass, enamelled, painted by William Beilby, England (Newcastle-upon-Tyne), 1765-79
Physical description
Foot: domed; Stem: baluster; Knop: teared; Bowl: round funnel
Dimensions
  • Height: 18.4cm
Style
Marks and inscriptions
Inscribed 'Beilby pinxit' (enamelled) (Signature)
Gallery label
Signed 'Beilby pinxit'. For similar figures of coal miners with pill-box hats and plumes, heavy boots with knee-pads, picks and hanging iron grease-lamps, see the German glass and ceramic vessels made for miners' guilds. It seems possible that this goblet was made for some miners' or mine-owners' organisation.
Credit line
Wilfred Buckley Collection
Bibliographic reference
English Glass - R. J. Charleston, (1984) pl.41a. English Glassware to 1900 - Charles Truman, (1984) pl.19. The ingenious Beilbys - James Rush, 1973 The decorated glasses of William and Mary Beilby 1761-78 - Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, 1980 p.13, no.59 Cf. Meisterwerke bergbaulicher Kunst vom 13. bis 19. Jahrhandert - Rainer Slotta, Christoph Bartels, catalogue of exhibition organised by Deutsches Bergbau-Museum and held at Schloß Cappenberg, Bochum, 1990
Other number
9202 - Glass gallery number
Collection
Accession number
C.623-1936

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Record createdDecember 13, 1997
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