SOLD – Powell & Sons Whitefriars ‘Leather Bottle’ Glass Carafe c1880

£139.00

Product Code:2016020922

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Description

Heading : Powell & Sons Whitefriars glass carafe
Date : c1880
Period : Victorian
Origin : English
Pattern : ‘J1’
Colour : Clear
Body : Oval pyramid like shape. decorated with an applied trailing of pincered fins to one side and band of rigaree around the neck.
Pontil : Polished
Glass Type : Lead
Size : 8 1/8 inches tall and approx. 5 5/8 inches in diameter
Condition : Excellent
Restoration : None
Weight : 485 grams

Additional Information : The form was inspired by early flasks made of leather hence the  name ‘the oval leather bottle’. This very form appears in the James Powell & Sons catalogue for 1880. All  very “renaissance revival”

References :

Nineteenth Century British Glass By Hugh Wakefield – Plate 82A. 

The Decanter an Illustrated history of glass from 1650 By Andy McConnell – Page 450 Plate 632.

Additional information

Weight500 g

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