Here’s health to market in drinking glasses

ONE of 11, generally very fine, British drinking glasses consigned from ‘a Highland lady’ to The Scottish Sale held by Bonhams (17.5% buyer's premium) in Edinburgh on August 18-20, was this 3 1/4in (8cm) high polychromed enamel firing glass, right, probably decorated c.1765 by member of the Beilby family of Newcastle.

To the front are the arms of the Lodge of Journeymen and Masons, No 8 Edinburgh, within a scrolling …

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