Six James Powell Hock Wine Glasses c1905

Description

Heading : Six Hock or Wine Glasses
Date : c1905
Period : Edwardian
Origin : English
Colour : Olive Green
Bowl : Cup
Stem : Knopped
Stem Features : Clear angular shoulder knop with applied green raspberry prunts above a hollow baluster with green applied trailing
Foot : Conical. ribbed
Glass Type : Lead
Size : 6 1/4 inches tall with a 2 1/4 inch bowl and  3 inch foot   
Condition : Excellent. no chips or cracks
Restoration : None
Weight: 1100 grams

Powell and sons ( Whitefriars)  produced a series of glass items from 1899 to 1912. ” Glasses with histories” . This was done to meet the resurgent demand for 17th and 18th century glass that could not be met by antique examples. The market was supplied by retailers such as Selfridge. Liberty and Morris and Co. These pale green wine. or specifically “hock” glasses are now antiques in their own right but were stylised versions of Dutch and German glass from the 16th and 17th centuries.