Description:
The Beilby's were a successful business family from the North East centred around William Beilby (1743-1819). A scholar from Durham School, his father sent him to Birmingham to be apprenticed to John Haseldine an enameller of metal boxes. His brother Richard was also apprenticed in Birmingham as a seal engraver. When their father's business as a silversmith and jeweller failed they returned North and the whole family decamped to Gateshead. William had already been experimenting with enamels on glass and Tyneside would have provided a ready supply of local glass and imported Low Countries glass. Other members of the family were tutored in decorating glass and a thriving business was established.See Glass Circle News, Vol.34 No. 3 Issue 27 Nov. 2011, for an article on Beilby enamelled glass, p.8 for an illustration of five drawn trumpet opaque twist glasses with this fruiting vine pattern. Wine glass with round funnel bowl, mulitple spiral opaque twist stem, conical foot; bowl decorated with opaque white enamel in a leaf and flower border; rough pontil mark. Enamel painted glasses signed by William Beilby (1740-1819) of Newcastle-upon-Tyne have prompted Beilby attributions for most glasses of this type. Most commonly enamelled designs were vines and grapes.
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