Glassworks: James Powell & Sons (Probably)
Double-blown lead-glass, the interior silvered, the exterior overlaid with green glass, cut, and engraved. Bell-shaped bowl on knopped and cut stem with a circular foot. The bowl is engraved with the coat-of-arms of the City of York and of the Dukes of Somerset, and there is a ribbon design on the foot. The opening at the base is inlaid with a seal marked 'E. Varnish & Co, London, Patent.'
History note: Charles and Lavinia Handley-Read Collection; both died 1971; purchased from Thomas Stainton, executor of the Handley-Read Estate
Purchased with the Perceval Fund, and grant-in-aid from the Victoria and Albert Museum
Diameter: 11.1 cm
Height: 23.0 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1972-10-19) by Handley-Read Estate
19th Century, Mid#
Victoria I
Production date:
circa
AD 1850
A patent for silvered glass was taken out on 19 August 1849 by Frederick Hale Thomson and Edward Varnish, but the glass bearing their patent mark may have been made by James Powell & Sons of Whitefriars.
Bowl
Interior
Stem
Accession number: C.51-1972
Primary reference Number: 26051
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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