Description:
The Beilbys 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. Colorless wine glass with round funnel bowl, multiple spiral opaque twist stem, conical foot, and rough pontil mark. The bowl is decorated in opaque white enamel in a floral swag border, the enamelling done by William Beilby of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Enamelled English glass is extremely rare, and Beilby is one of the few credited with the production of many examples of enamelled glass. His most common motifs were the vine and berry pattern, garden landscapes with urns and ruins, and floral swags. Beilby produced the majority of his designs in white enamel although some polychrome examples exist in public collections. A signed Beilby example is in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum. On the underside of foot are two white paper labels which read ""1-WT" and "no #, W-T/9/87".
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